Natalie researched the atmosphere and mood and how this would affect the audience. Camera movements and angles were considered to give the right effect we were looking for. e.g. an extreme close up on the face of one character to show their reaction. Colours were also considered knowing that they often symbolize something; in this case, red and black would be vital to symbolize evilness.
To create suspense and tension, we made the decision that we would show the audience what the characters cannot see.
Elliott spoke about the storyline, briefly explaining what is going to happen. He also took care of the enigmas, saying how we’ve created them. The audience will be left wondering why she is seeking vengeance on people who have hurt her and what consequences will result from this.
Style and inspiration was also done by Elliott. For our film much inspiration was taken from Psycho in the famous shower scene where the woman in the shower does not see what the audience can – which is her murderer about to kill her. We were also inspired with the way the villain was kept in the dark and her features were hidden.
We noticed that in many of Martin Scorsese’s films, he used red and black to symbolize violence, murder, evilness and things of that nature. Therefore we wanted to adopt that style and use it in our own film.
Run Lola Run gave us many ideas for style and inspiration such as the voiceover at the beginning of the film. The female lead narrates the beginning of the film and makes it very exciting as she explains what’s happened. The music in the beginning also builds up a climax. This is what we want to also achieve.
Together, Nicola and Hattie took photos of the locations we were going use. This included pictures of the house and school. Hattie spoke about the audience profile and who would be interested in this type of film, she came up with a target audience of young adults and females since they are able to familiarise themselves with this.
Nicola found a track called, "Fear Factor" which will be used in flasbacks and the music builds tension. The music is royalty free so we can therefore use it without worry of copyright infringement. As she is the main character she will also be doing the voiceover.
Audience research was conducted by Hattie, Nicola and Natalie. We printed out three questionnaires to ask people which of the three scenarios sounded more entertaining and since they preferred the third we decided to go with that one and work on what they sggested would make it better.
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