1. Describe your shot and identify in what way it could be seen as representing 'horror'
- Medium long shot framed by a table and dark walls
- Dark room but beam of light coming from slight opening in the door
- Shot from floor level focusing on the body on the floor, body is obviously female and either injured or dead, light source is shining on her making her seem innocent
- Legs of the villain in the foreground making the villain mysterious because you are unable to work out age, gender, appearance by just the legs
- Shadow coming from the legs of the villain making the villain seem dark and it also adds to the mystery
- Image contrasts light and dark which follows the theme in most horror films of good versus evil of villain versus victim
2. What did you actually do to achieve the effect?
- The person taking the shot lay on the floor and took it from floor level so that the focus was on the victim and the villain was left mysterious
- Used pad lights as the only source of light so that we were able to choose where we wanted the light to shine and what elements we wanted in shadow
- Used a dark, enclosed space to give the feel of being in a dark room with no one around to help
3. What is successful about your shot?
- The angle of the shot because we are unable to see the full body of the villain but the victim is centred and clear
- The darkness of the room because we were able to create the shadows we wanted using the pad lights
- The way the light hits the victim and is framed by the darkness of the villains legs helps with the contrast and also keeps the victim
4. What would you do differently in hindsight?
- I would have cropped the picture or zoomed in so that there wasn’t so much wall and bare space on the left
- There is a light bulb outside the door but I think the shot would have been better if the light source wasn’t obvious so the light seemed more mysterious
- The detail left on around the characters such as the plug socket on the wall and the objects on the floor, I would get rid of them or edit them out so the shot stays simple
- The table leg I would move or place in front of the villain because it blends too much with the villains leg making it less clear
- Medium long shot framed by a table and dark walls
- Dark room but beam of light coming from slight opening in the door
- Shot from floor level focusing on the body on the floor, body is obviously female and either injured or dead, light source is shining on her making her seem innocent
- Legs of the villain in the foreground making the villain mysterious because you are unable to work out age, gender, appearance by just the legs
- Shadow coming from the legs of the villain making the villain seem dark and it also adds to the mystery
- Image contrasts light and dark which follows the theme in most horror films of good versus evil of villain versus victim
2. What did you actually do to achieve the effect?
- The person taking the shot lay on the floor and took it from floor level so that the focus was on the victim and the villain was left mysterious
- Used pad lights as the only source of light so that we were able to choose where we wanted the light to shine and what elements we wanted in shadow
- Used a dark, enclosed space to give the feel of being in a dark room with no one around to help
3. What is successful about your shot?
- The angle of the shot because we are unable to see the full body of the villain but the victim is centred and clear
- The darkness of the room because we were able to create the shadows we wanted using the pad lights
- The way the light hits the victim and is framed by the darkness of the villains legs helps with the contrast and also keeps the victim
4. What would you do differently in hindsight?
- I would have cropped the picture or zoomed in so that there wasn’t so much wall and bare space on the left
- There is a light bulb outside the door but I think the shot would have been better if the light source wasn’t obvious so the light seemed more mysterious
- The detail left on around the characters such as the plug socket on the wall and the objects on the floor, I would get rid of them or edit them out so the shot stays simple
- The table leg I would move or place in front of the villain because it blends too much with the villains leg making it less clear
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