Group Discussion - Props and Lighting

 

 This week George and I have been discussing props we may need to use during our filming of our opening sequence. We have decided we may have to incorporate a sign reading ‘Sorrow Falls’. This should make the audience identify the location as being called Sorrow Falls, which gives many horror connotations and is a conventional location name for horror films. This also has connotations of a small rural village or town. We may also need to set up a tent to illustrate that these people have been camping in this location. This will mean setting up a campsite which should be easy and inexpensive to do as we both have tents we could use for this. We can also lay empty drinks cans and bags next to the tent to connote that they have been there for a while.

 George and I also discussed the problem of having to film a dark sequence as most of our opening sequence is. We have sorted out this issue by us either filming on an overcast day, then touching it up a little with the editing software on the computer to darken the picture. Or by shooting our footage at the evening, or early in the morning. We may be also able to get the effect we want by shooting in daylight, then putting a blue filter on in the editing software. This will contrast well with the yellow filter we plan to use when cutting to out montage shots. This is the most likely option we are going to do.

 We have also been discussing how we are going to do the lighting in the barn scene where an orange light is seen coming out of the barn opening. So far we have been thinking of using large torches for this and using an orange filter over them to give the orange effect. We were going to be using some bigger lighting equipment from the media department, but after visiting the barn again we found there are no wall sockets to plug the lights into. I then found a man who may let us use his studio lighting as he has his own portable generator so the lack of wall sockets wouldn’t be a problem. However, we are unsure as to whether we will be able to use them when we begin shooting. So for now we plan to use some high power torches with orange film over them. This should be inexpensive, but still provide the effect we are looking for.