AS Adam Media C/W: December 2015

Tuesday, 15 December 2015

Explanation Of Concept

Why we chose our idea/concept:

We decided on this concept as we took inspiration from the babadook in the same way they discovered a "childs book" we discovered a photo album. We also felt that this idea would be most unnerving and original as I had not seen this concept before. The main plot hook being that the demon takes the form of his next victim which would always be a child. We could play on the fact that it was always a child by drawing in our creepy kid film research. In addition to this when we asked others which concept they preferred 'The Speculum' was voted by the majority.

Drafts (story Board)

Storyboard Draft:

Comments on our storyboard draft:

In our storyboard draft we knew we wanted to film a conversation with the estate agent and Christopher however we wanted it to be quick and like a flashback. Therefore we decided on only one simple shot however this would mean the establishing shot would be after which we felt would not look as professional as other films such as fright night which began with looking onto the house.

Taking this into account we added two establishing shots at the start. In addition we added two reverse shots due to us wanting to see the facial expressions and to emphasise any silence.

To cut to the next scene we changed the time of day and had a car pull up. We decided to keep this shot however make it so that the estate agents were the ones who drove it rather than Elizabeth and Christopher as it made more sense and we wouldn't have to convey a passage of time from shot 3 to shot 4.

We decided in the storyboard that the girl would be mesmerised by the box straight away and that she would discover everything (photos of herself and demon) in one location however we wanted to make her seem more vulnerable therefore in my final storyboard we put her in her bedroom - a closed space. We also found that we needed to include more shots or shots of longer duration in order to have large periods of silence as we found this was a key trend during our research. This was why we decided to make a long lasting shot of Elizabeth walking into the room, sitting down, unpacking, discovering a box, and finding the photo album all in one shot.

The last shot, rather than seeing Elizabeth scream, we would have the noise off screen without the dad coming into her room and end immediately so as to ensure we did not break the tension we had built up. We also tried to make the demon seem more threatening and creepy to match our genre by focusing on her reveal being slower and more abstract.