Olivia's media blog

  Introduction For our characters, we wanted to present the normalcy of a conventional couple contrasting the gruesome imagery and twisting their relationship into something sinister. The idea of a couple matches the idyllic picnic scene, and contrasts the body in the back of the car and all the red imagery. We deliberately chose an actress with red hair as we felt it added the characterization of a femme fatale. As we also chose to not have any dialogue and not to reveal the characters faces, red hair added a bold feature that would make the female identifiable. Dream Casting For my film opening, I would ideally cast Emma Stone and Penn Badgley. Badgley's role in "You", a successful Psychological Thriller TV show, shows his ability to convincingly play a Psychotic character. Similarly Emma Stone's role in "Cruella" (2021) shows her range of capabilities. She has starred in multiple movies and has won many awards, while participating in films of many genres....

  In this clip, editing, camera work, sound and lighting all give meaning that the girl is in danger. In the opening shot, an establishing shot shows a girl standing in front of a funhouse - with a sign saying 'Find Yourself'. This is foreshadowing when you consider the context of the film (a family discovers there are clone-like copies of themselves who are out to kill them, and the girl's doppelganger is inside the carnival). The bright lights illuminating the building emphasise the darkness around the areas, isolating the young girl and creating a silhouette of her body. When it moves on to a close up of her feet, which proceed to walk away, it creates the impression she is walking out of the audience's reach, and walking away from safety. In the following shot, a slow zoom on the girl as she walks into the building, framed by the doorway, also leaves the impression she is walking away from the outside world, and into darkness.   As the character walks through, a tra...

Schedule To keep track of our progress and to ensure we were staying on track for the deadline, we made a basic schedule outlining dates for test shots, filming and other tasks we had to get done. I used the website Trello, as it had the ability to be shared so I was able to work online with Clementine (which was especially useful when we were both away over the holidays). Trello had two exchangeable formats, a to do list and calendar. Clementine and I started by making a list of what we had to do, and we would switch it into the completed section once we finished. This allowed us to stay on top our work, organised, and prioritize tasks. The calendar function also made it easy for us to plan out filming around our own schedules.