Props and location

Location 1: Forrest.

Initially we, Megan, Fern and I, as a group were looking to film half our media project in a bedroom, and the other half in a Forest.This idea sprung up as the day was misty and we could hardly see more than 10 feet in front of ourselves, generally, misty forests give off creepy vibes. Therefore we filmed our character running through the Forrest. However when it came to editing, we found that using the running scenes did not match up to what we already had of the dolls. It seemed as though it would put a stop in the tense atmosphere that was gradually being built up, meaning we would have to choose one or the other. Looking over the clips, we chose to cut out the forest scenes, however we did leave one shot when we filmed an image of a 'victim' hanging on a tree, swinging in the wind, this in itself was rather creepy as it creates an eerie atmosphere.

Props: Tea cups 

  

One of our props that we used were childrens plastic tea cups. Our first plan was to take off the stickers and draw antique looking flower patterns to make them look older and make it more of a traditional horror prop. However when it came to drawing on them, it was difficult and marker pens would just run and no other pen would set, because of this we decided to use the stickers. Following this, when we filmed them, we decided they actually look better anyway. Also we were able to cover them in mud allowing us to create a messy aura.These shots were filmed in the location of the Forest.

Props: chalkboard 

For our main credits we used a chalk board. The reason for doing so was because it gave it an old vibe. To emphasize this we hand held the camera and editing noise into the shot so that it looked like some of the very first cinematic horror. Fern drew this inspiration from a horror TV show she had watched in the past called the American Horror Show. We all agreed that this effect really worked with our theme.

Props: images 

This is the example of the 'victim' shot that we used. We did shoot 5 however this was the best one to come out. This was also shoot in the forest as explained 2 above. To create this effect we originally printed off images of portraits and manipulated them by hand (physical experiments). We drew this inspiration from work which we had done for photography. We scratched out faces, wrote on them and near enough destroyed them. 

Props: dolls house 

Location: Megan's bedroom

As our genre we chose horror. We decided to manipulate childhood innocence. We are using dolls as we thought it would be a good idea to shoot part of our product in a pretty bedroom. It was very handy that Megan's bedroom resembles the looks which was intended. Above is an image taken from our final project showing what is seen in the film opening - the mental bed frame. I think it works well  and am glad we shot the dolls scene here.

Props: wish dolls

Another prop we used was little wishing dolls. These were my own so we didn't have to buy dolls. They turned out to be perfect because they are so small, and the dolls house is rather large, the contrast in size creates a tenser mood. The person playing with them puts them on the stairs and knocks them down. This is brutal and suggests a deadly atmosphere around. As you can see from the screen shot, it has a vignette and a noise efffect, along with being hand held. I really like these effects with the dolls because I believe they all work together to form that horror feel. Additionally as it was hand held, the focus keeps going in and out which I really like because it gives an eerie effect of someone's watching you.

Make-up

 Using Pinterest to find different scar dolls ideas for makeup, we decided to use one scary doll and one colourful, sweet doll. We saved our favourite pictures and used them to accumulate ideas.However, we did find that the ones on Pinterest seemed very professional and hard to replicate. In light of this, we decided to go down to basics:

We used stereotypical outlined red lipstick on our doll to represent the colours along with long fake eye-lashes and pink eye shadow to show the femininity and fake innocence.

We made this doll with the lips not fitting the whole lip- like the first image displayed above. I thought this was a good idea because it represented a darker looking soul, it shows deformity in a makeup manner.