Engaging
the Audience
Camera shots
• Canted shots: This will be use to make
the shot look uneven and disorientated the audience. It'll also connote the
feelings of the wife, to show fear, confusion, anxiety and panic.
• The camera will always be to one side of the husband. The shot will
never 100% show the husband face, and will constantly partially show parts of
his face. This will create a mysterious, unclear character, making the the
husband enigmatic. This links to Roland Barthes' theory, high states that all
good narratives have enigma codes, which leaves the audience wanting to
continue to watch so everything can be resolved.
• Extreme close up shots: extreme close up
shots will be used on the husband so that you can never see his face clearly.
This will contribute to the enigmatic character that is being created. Extreme
close up shots will use on the wife to emphasis emotions and feelings. This
will create suspense within the audience and will build tension.
All these camera shots will be used to
disorientated the audience as much as possible. The camera shots will not
reveal anything completely so that the audience will want to continue to watch
so that they can find out what is going.
Sound/Dialogue/ music
• Eery non-diegetic asynchronous sound that does not match with the
visual content. This will be used to signify that there is something that the
audiences are unaware of. The asynchronous music will also be used to
disorientated the audience and confuse them, which will reflect the way the
wife is feeling.
• The tempo of the music will increase dramatically when the husband
begins to walk down the stares. This will be done to build up tension with in
the audience, and represents the husband as an antagonistic character.
• The dialogue will be soft and quiet. The character will not speak
loudly during the opening sequence to signify that there is a secret that is to
be told and that someone is hiding something.
• The dialogue will be minimal between the wife, husband and wife's
sister in the beginning to connote tension between the character, and to show
that the wife's sister may know that something is going. The minimal dialogue
will also contribute to setting the scene and atmosphere of the opening scene.
• A dramatic contrast between gloomy slow paced music at the start,
compared to the faster paced music to signify danger.
All of these sound techniques will be used to
represent to the audience that someone is being deceptive and that there is
some thing to be revealed. This will make the ash wince continue to watch so
they can discover this revelation.
Editing transitions.
• Quick transitions from one scene to another. Scenes will end
prematurely and will cut to other locations quickly. This will be done so that
the audience he find it hard to follow what is going on and will not be able
keep up with the storyline.
• However, in contrast, there will be smooth transitions from one
scene to another juxtaposition to the quick transitions used. This will be sued
to confuse the audience and it'll make the mood of the opening sequence
unclear.
• Every piece of visual content, there will be a filter that will
represent the scene as mysterious and enigmatic. This will be done so that
whole entire mood of the opening sequence is represented in the same when and
that there is something unclear throughout.
All these siting techniques will be used to
create a quick, paced dramatic opening sequence, without bombarding the
audience will too many action codes. It'll be fast paced and unclear so that
the audience find it hard to follow, consequently encouraging them to continue
watching.
Colours
• A lot of black costumes and coloured objects to connote darkness.
The husband will be in a black consume to represent him as the clear antagonist,mysterious,
deceptive and ambiguous. Overall represent him as the clear villain in the
opening sequence.
• The wife will be if a red top and a white dress. The use of red will
be done to connote love (love for either her husband or the man she has cheated
with). However the red will also connote danger to audience, signifying that
she is not the innocent character in this film and that she is untrustworthy.
Overall, the colours will represent the
characters in a fairly obvious way, however will engage the audience and make
them question why they're being represented in this way.
Locations
• The wife's sister and the husband will be seen hanging
"missing" posters around the area in fairly obviously and common
locations, which intrigues the audience due to the fact that there are so many
locations, that it makes them curious as to which location is the main
location.
• The cellar is the most prominent location in the whole film, and the
scene will end there. The opening will end there, along with the revelation
that the wife is there. This will engage the audience because it'll make them
want to continue watching the film, to find out why the wife is tied in the
cellar.
The use of various locations in the opening
sequence will add to the confusion of the scene, and will make the audience
wonder where she is. Due to the fact that so many common locations are used, it
creates further ambiguity as to where she is, and builds tension.
Lighting
• To add to the enigmatic character of the husband, very little/ dark
lighting will be used so that his face is not revealed. This will add to the
enigma codes of the husband because it won't allow the audience to see his face
clearly, making him even more mysterious.
• Harsh lighting as the door in the cellar is opened to emphasis the
duration the wife has been down in the cellar. This will give the audience the
idea that the husband has known how long she has been down in the cellar.
Generally low lighting to emphasis the darkness
and gloominess of the film, and to create enigmatic characters, intriguing the
audience to continue to watch the film so that situations are resolved.
Planned as a group but written by Jack Baffour
- There was a big problem with
lighting. We are unaware whether that’s because the camera we used didn’t have
a protector for the lenses or whether it was just because on the day of filming
it was light outside. To solve this problem, two members of the group had to
hold a dark bed sheet over the windows (shown in the picture). This helped for the majority of the
shot, the laptop screen still can’t be seen clearly but we didn’t think that
was much of an issue.
