What Makes it Work? // Research and Feedback

In the lesson we talked about our idea to Matt and Luke, we told him our final storyboard idea and how we would film it.

However, we decided that the first part of our story was not going to work as it was a bit stereotypical and could be quite boring.
So they came up with the idea that our whole opening sequence could just be the floorboards and we film the whole opening sequence under the floorboards and really focus on the detail of the bodies.

Matt also thought that the final shot of the eye coming through the floorboards was very cliche so we should think of another ending that would be as effective.

This gave us a good direction of where to go here and how we should go about filming our opening sequence. It also narrowed down our idea so we have a better sense of what we are doing.
We are also going to investigate interesting ways to film under floorboards and how we can light the set to make it effective.

This lighting style is very effective because you can see half of the face but the other half in in darkness, this gives the whole image a eerie effect and can be very effective if used correctly. I think that this would be a very interesting way to light the girls under the floorboards because it will make the whole scene feel more tense.

Our opening sequence is like the first scene of Kill Bill 2 where she is stuck in the coffin underground.  The only thing we see in the sequence is her trying to escape so it is very simplistic with lots of sound scapes. We could use this idea when we film our floorboard scene and take inspiration from it.

If you go on to Sasha's blog she has done a blog post about the stage make up (SFX makeup) we are going to use in our shoot.