A long and eventful day of filming has finally come and gone. I am currently working on editing a little 'behind the scenes' video for you. Hopefully that will be up within the next few days. I had such a great day!
All this hard work planning and researching has definitely been beneficial. For example, it made it much easier for me to decide on aspects of mise-en-scene, such as lighting, when thinking back to actual opening sequence that I have analysed.
I attempted to keep my lighting mostly low key throughout the opening sequence. This is typical of movies of the horror genre, relating to the idea that bad things happen at night, in the shadows.
For the scenes shot outside (the atmospheric shots for the opening credits and scene 2) I could do little to control the lighting, therefore, I will add colour correction and brightness effects in postproduction to create a dark atmosphere. However, I had chosen to shoot the film on a particularly dull and cloudy day, creating a negative pathetic fallacy (weather to reflect the mood).
Scene 1 is the first example of my use of low key lighting. I shot the scene using only my desk lamp as a back light, making sure no natural light was allowed in. This cast eerie shadows over Bonnie's face and helped to make the film visually appear conventional of movies in the horror genre.
I was sure to shoot scene 3 once it was dark and all natural light had faded, once again using a low key lighting set up of just one light. This cast shadows, for example on the shot below, we see the shadow of the bath tap.
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