Our Media project challenges the stereotypical horror film by having a little girl as the main character and having her as the killer. We have chosen certain Camera Angles, editing techniques and Mise on scene to help us with making a successful horror. One thing we have chosen to do is to never show the main female character, Zoe's, eyes. We believe this adds a slight creepy feel to the character because when you look at someone, usually you would look at their eyes but you cant do that with her.
This shot is the ending of a dolly shot going into an over the shoulder shot. This shows our character Zoe colouring, she is drawing death pictures. This shot creates a kind of innocent feel as colouring can be seen as innocent and a small child would do this for fun, is helps create an innocent feel to our character as it is unclear what she is doing, when you figure it out you then realise she is not so innocent. The lighting in this shot is quite dark, this helps create a mysterious feel as the drawings are not very visible but it also creates a creep feel as the dark can be quite deceptive. We have placed scissors in the shot as scissors are classed as dangerous and a child wouldn't normally play with them, Yet they are in her room. This adds to the twisted feel of the opening.
This shot shows are character playing with the Ragdoll, but this is no normal playing with a doll as this is actually the bit where she is acting out a death with her doll. This shot her face is hidden we did this purposely to add to the deception of not seeing what she looks like. We did this shot by having Charlotte sit under my sisters bed with a camera. The eye level angle makes the filming seem more natural and adds realism to the film. The dolls makes the child seem innocent but as the film continues you find out she isn't as innocent as she looks. The dark lighting adds the creepy feel, and helps keep the film mysterious.
The next shot is a high angle shot looking down on the female character as she breaks the arm of the rag doll then throws it away. She is surrounded by the pictures around her, Which shows she draws alot, the drawings are quite twisted so it helps add to the feel of her twistedness. This is also crucial to the plot line linking to the newspaper story later on.
The next shot is of her swinging on a swing. This is a long shot showing her own body. This shows her freedom to do as she pleases. The swing creates a creaking noise as she swings adding a good sound effect. She then leaves as the swings carry's on creaking. She walks away. we also had the natural sound of the park playing We chose to have no children at the park to show herself being alone. Here it is at a canted Angle, this can help show uneasiness as she is in the park on her own and you don't really know what she is going to do next. The face is still never shown.
The next shot is Zoe walking up the hill. This goes into a long shot as the camera stays stationary and she walks away from it. We chose to use many Jump shots as she walks up the hill. We chose to do this because it is a generic convention of an editing technique of a horror film but also allows her to walk up the hill a lot quicker. She also starts to fade out at the top of the hill. This is because of her wearing light colors that reflect off the sun. This adds to the effect and makes it look better, it adds a slightly mystical feel to the character. once again no one is around showing how alone she is. We still had the natural sound here as we feel the natural sound helped create realism and made the little girl seem lonelier. Her face is never shown when she is walking, as we feel it would give to much away.
This shot shows where we chose to do a match on action shot. The older male character starts walking down hall way and walks into a room, the next shot is him walking into the bedroom. We chose to do this because we think it looks good and because we have added more editing and filming techniques. Here you see the older character walking in with a piece of parer, this piece of paper then becomes relevant later on in the film. The lighting is still very dark here and this adds to the creepy feel of the room. The piece of parer in his hand also adds to the deception of the film as you don't actually know what it is, until the end.
He then clears up the bedroom. This is him pretending that what she is doing isn't happening and he is trying to clear it up. He then turns off the artificial light, opens the curtains and puts the rag doll back on the bed before leaving the room. When he opens the curtain it brings in light which makes the room seem more normal and gives it its childlike innocents back. You can see the Ragdoll on the bed, we purposely did this to show that its the same room and it links to the title of our film. The rooms colours are properly shown here, the color purple con-notates a small innocent girl, which is quite the opposite to our character but it implys that she could be normal.
After the actions of the male character, the shot pans down to the newspaper on the bed which is a close up shot. This hovers showing the viewer the newspaper, Reveling to the watcher what that piece of paper was in the older persons hand. It shows that the actions the female character carry's out onto the rag doll has happened in real life. This shows that what she is doing isn't innocent child's play but has serious consequences. It adds questions into the characters mind. Here the music starts playing helping it seem creepier. We made sure this shot wasn't to long as we wanted to keep the mystery into the film.
We then went to the opening credits . We show our names on colored paper linking back to the child theme. We cut our names out and attached them to areas in the park which we filmed one of our scenes. We chose different places in the park to put our names. We chose to do a transition of a fade in on the first title to show that the titles are not apart of the story line and are different. We used different filming techniques to film them including Zoom and Dolly/Hand Held camera work. We also edited Charlotte's name by adding jump shots in.
We then continued with the colored paper and cut out the words "The Rag doll" we chose to create a hopscotch for our film title and put the colored letters in instead of writing numbers. We then but the chalk at the top of the hopscotch, to show the hopscotch had been drawn, the doll halfway down as the name of this film is based on that rag doll and the shoes at the bottom, we chose the shoes are character wore, this links the character into the film openings.
He then clears up the bedroom. This is him pretending that what she is doing isn't happening and he is trying to clear it up. He then turns off the artificial light, opens the curtains and puts the rag doll back on the bed before leaving the room. When he opens the curtain it brings in light which makes the room seem more normal and gives it its childlike innocents back. You can see the Ragdoll on the bed, we purposely did this to show that its the same room and it links to the title of our film. The rooms colours are properly shown here, the color purple con-notates a small innocent girl, which is quite the opposite to our character but it implys that she could be normal.
After the actions of the male character, the shot pans down to the newspaper on the bed which is a close up shot. This hovers showing the viewer the newspaper, Reveling to the watcher what that piece of paper was in the older persons hand. It shows that the actions the female character carry's out onto the rag doll has happened in real life. This shows that what she is doing isn't innocent child's play but has serious consequences. It adds questions into the characters mind. Here the music starts playing helping it seem creepier. We made sure this shot wasn't to long as we wanted to keep the mystery into the film.
We then went to the opening credits . We show our names on colored paper linking back to the child theme. We cut our names out and attached them to areas in the park which we filmed one of our scenes. We chose different places in the park to put our names. We chose to do a transition of a fade in on the first title to show that the titles are not apart of the story line and are different. We used different filming techniques to film them including Zoom and Dolly/Hand Held camera work. We also edited Charlotte's name by adding jump shots in.
We then continued with the colored paper and cut out the words "The Rag doll" we chose to create a hopscotch for our film title and put the colored letters in instead of writing numbers. We then but the chalk at the top of the hopscotch, to show the hopscotch had been drawn, the doll halfway down as the name of this film is based on that rag doll and the shoes at the bottom, we chose the shoes are character wore, this links the character into the film openings.
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