We decided to depict a horror movie in our shots and used the school cellar as our setting. We chose to take the pictures here because it was eerie and mysterious - very fitting to a typical horror film. The girl in this medium shot is the conventional victim, a young woman desperately trying to escape from a dark room through an old and run-down looking door. From what you can see of her expression, their is a sense of panic and urgency to get out of the door, increasing the audiences fear of the unknown and what could be lurking in the shadows. As the girl is a teenager, the film would most likely be aimed at teenagers or young adults.
We deliberately succumbed the inside of the cellar into darkness by turning off all the lights. This meant we could keep the location under wraps and draw the focus more onto the girl, who is looking down and fumbling with the door handle in a hurried attempt to get out. The shot was taken from a slight high angle, to give the impression that the girl is smaller than she actually is and therefore in a state of vulnerability. The light generally points towards the girl who is in the centre of the shot and thus the object of attention. We also included a frame inside a frame to emphasise her entrapment and to express this more vividly to the viewer.
If I were to reshoot, I would suggest even darker lighting, as although this is quite low-key, it isn't dark enough to instantly convey the horror genre. We could've also done the shot from further away and at a higher angle, to make her look even more innocent and in danger.
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