Set
The set I am planning to use is the exterior and interior of a flat. It will appear quite isolated as it is surrounded by vegetation and no other buildings which will effectively convey the vulnerability and isolation I wish to portray. I plan to use the exterior of the flat to establish location and to establish that this flat has great significance regarding the narrative and I plan to use the interior of the flat to delve deeper into the narrative and show a complex series of events, for example, draws being opened, doors being slammed, chairs being moved. I plan to focus a lot on security and to portray the notion that even when you feel secure, you may be putting yourself at greater risk.
Props
I am planning to use very naturalistic props to convey a realistic lifestyle so that the audience will be able to relate and therefore become more frightened when things begin to take a turn for the worst. As I am focusing alot on security I plan to shoot a lot of extreme close ups of door latches, keys, door locks. I plan to use chairs, kitchen drawers (as part of the set) the television fuzzing to portray supernatural events occuring. A significant prop that I am going to be using is newspaper clippings that I am going to create to use at the start of the teaser trailer, fading onto the long shots of friends walking into the flat. I will be using these so that the audience have prior knowledge of an event that has happened in this flat and they can therefore establish that something bad is going to happen.
Costume
I plan to use naturalistic costumes such as 'normal' everyday clothes for the friends and I am particularly going to concentrate on the female character and make her dress in predominantly white clothes to potray that she is the potential victim and is vulnerable (gender will contribute to the vulnerability also). As the trailer progresses however I plan for the female character to wear darker clothes to portray that she is adopting a darker side and is therefore not so vulnerable anymore but frightening and dangerous.
Actors
Building upon the gender idea discussed above, my main character is going to be a female victim. Traditionally in films females have always been able to portray a victim very successfully (Drew Barrymore in Scream for example) So i have decided to build upon this stereotype and cast a female as the vulnerable character. I have decided to use two male flatmates as the 'extras', the female's friends who live in the flat with her, I have decided to use two males to show that even when men are present, this will not stop the female becoming more vulnerable and effected by the supernatural. Males will help to enhance the fright and worry.
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