AS Media Studies: Design Decisions

Costumes- For our film, we will be dressing the adversary of the film in quite tattreed/old looking worn in clothing, thta will possibly have blood stains on, and will look unsusal. We will not however, be making the clothing really dark, as it may fade into the background, and obscure the vision of the costume. Our protagonist on the other hand will have fairly normal average looking clothes, to show thereis nothing strange or hidden about them.

Lighting- For our film we will rely mainly on natural light from the setting, we are filming in. For example, in the twlighti hour between the day and night we won't be using any form of extra light to aid the camera, and will shoot as it is. But when it gets darker, we will be using the small torch on the camera, to create a different mood, and higlight certain feautures of the charcters.

Props- For our film we will be using unique props for our film opening, and not sticking to the normal horror genre type of weapon, such as a knife or axe. We will be using weapons such as garden shears, or possibly a chainsaw, as they are not often seen in conventional horror films.

Mise-en-scene- For our film we are going to use our setting to aid our mise-en-scene for the film, as the visual set of the scene is horror assciated itself, as when filming in a forest in winter, the scene will be looking quite bare and bleak and also quite creepy and mysterious. Also, the brightness of the daylight/ darkness, will help the mise-en-scene, as darkenss is associated with fear, and evil.

3 comments:

Siobhan15 November 2011 at 06:23
Homework:
1. think you have made a really good choice on costumes, i like how you've added detail when describing your cotumes especially when you said you won't be wearing dark corumes because it might faid in the background. I aslo like how your going to be using the scene of the forest in the winter as it creates a tense but scary atmosphere for the audience.

2.I like the choices you have made for the weapons of your film, however you could improve this further by adding a bit more detail onto your descriptions.
Chelsea16 November 2011 at 01:57
Homework:
1) I like the way you have put loads of detail into the different paragraphs and explained them clearly and put a picture to show evidence of your work.

2) you could improve the lighting paragraph by explaining your points further.
Scott cook16 November 2011 at 03:50
Homework:
1) I think you have used a lot of detail which should help when you come to film your clip. i like how you have used pictures to show what you mean and how you want your costume to look like.

2) You could put in links to films that portray what your trying to get across in your paragraphs.