Representation On Lighting

The colour scheme of our entire opening sequence is mainly in the grayscale and all the colours are dark and cold to represent the feeling of the character and audience and create an effect of danger and fear. The lighting is also quite dark and it sets the entire mood of the sequence and puts the audience in a state of fear.   

The colours are not vibrant and happy but the opposite.  We also got inspired by Psychological Horror game Silent Hill P.T. as it has a shot that we tried to recreate using the school corridor and the outcome is quite similar. The picture above is of our opening sequence corridor and the picture on the left is of Silent Hill P.T. The lighting is really important in horror films because darkness is stereotypically associated with the horror genre and danger.

     

Representation on Locations

We decided to shoot our film in a school. By basing the storyline on a horror event in a school it adds tension as a school is meant to be a safe place of education and peace, but it works as a paradox as the main character is being followed and killed in the safe place so it creates a sense of irony in the sequence.

We got inspired by the Horror films "The Expelled" and "Summer School", which are also filmed in a school setting and are again set at night.

As the scenes that we are filming are meant to happen after the school has been shut, we filmed it around 5-6 o'clock, so the scenes look realistic and dark. 

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