Location Photos and Description - Bedroom

Location Photos and Description:

Bedroom

In the beginning of the two minutes and also at the end we have shots of Violet in her bedroom. Initially we want to begin the 2 minutes with an establishing shot of Violet in her bedroom. We want to do this beause we want the audience to get a beginning theme of Violet's personality because we want to create ideas in their heads of her personality. We want these thoughts of Violet to manifest at the back of the audiences mind while they watch the rest of the shot of her on her bed.
We feel though that having a bedroom that is quite obviously meant to show Violet as a dark character but then add in confusing actions, like her crying when hearing the voicemails from us and seeing shots of all of us running would make the atmosphere quite bewildering. To have the thoughts of the audience confused at the beginning of the film, we feel would be either a clever aspect or a bad decision. On one hand it could set up the theme for the entire film and help add into the sterotypical 'confusion' atmosphere of psychological horr films and therefore the audience would enjoy having to connect the dots of the script and create their own ideas and thus creating a fun yet tense ora to the film. Or it could go the other way in which the audience may be confused at the beginning and may even give up on the rest of the film because of how confused they are at the beginning but we want to take that risk because if it goes the right way, the way we intend it to, it will be extremely effective.

Examples from other films:
This was quite a hard thing to search for because you usually in horror films don't get a set environment all of the time. And especially not bedrooms. But more than usual you never get to see where the killer lives or at least not their bedroom. To not get these types of examples we might struggle to find the ideas and the base that we would like to to efficiently get Violet's character across.
On the other hand, we need to consider the fact that a lot of the idea of Violet's character and the theme of the film is that you expect her to be quite the normal teenage girl, apart from her 'odd' appearance. So we need to consider elements of a typical teenage bedroom, but then add other aspects in that would make the bedroom link to Violet's character more.

Scream 4:
This is a less obvious but good example of the type of horror we are planning to do. We were trying to consider all aspects of a teenage bedroom. In the film Scream 4 which involves mainly teenagers like our film and also is a film in which you are attempting to figure out the killer throughout, so we believed that we could all look at aspects of the setting in this film. 
A scene in the film involves a murder taking place in a bedroom and there are plenty of establishing shots that show the bedroom practically in its entirety. Although, this bedroom is very different in comparison to what we want Violet's to be like. Also the fact that the bedroom in the killing scene was made up of a lot of lighter colours such as pastels and feminine delicate patterns made the blood, violence and the killer himself contrast the norms of that environment a lot more. Thus adding a less obvious uncomfortable atmosphere in the scene in lieu of a destination such as outside where it can almost be covered.

This is the scene from Scream 4. The film has similar elements that we are considering as previously discussed. Plus we need to make sure that we include elements in our film that will get our rating up to a 15. This is for two reasons. One is plainly because this is the rating that we predicted our film to be at so we need to ensure that we reach the credentials for that rating. Secondly because to make a film that is successfully acceptable for the sub-genre of psychological horror we need to make sure that these elements such as the gore and the blood shed that is considered in this shot is included. 
As is shown, the difference in this environment to the one we are planning on having is that the colours and light to represent the character's more innocent personality. But we are considering having the bedroom quite dark to represent the traits of our antagonist. So we are going to consider adding the elements for example the bedside table and maybe a lamp that you would see in a typical teenage girl's room. But again we also need to consider making her have that something that makes her different. This is where the almost overuse of black is going to come in.

Another room we considered is a bedroom from a film that we have already used components from for hair and makeup which is 'The Craft'. 
The girl featured is the character that we have considered that Violet is a lot like also has a room we would like to look into. 
In this shot, 'Nancy' is burning incense and actually casting a spell onto a dagger. The dagger that is used in this shot is also like the dagger we looked into for Violet to kill with. Also, the fact that she has the old time looking candle mostly in show it conveys the cult type ways we would like to show in Violet. Nancy also has an array of candles on her desk that don't match and also has a large amount of pictures and what seem almost like tarot cards. These components are aspects that lead connotations of witchcraft and darker magic. This is the characteristic and the kind of aura that we want to show from Violet and her bedroom. A bedroom seems to be a very personal space and somewhere in which a person can express them self and we believe that showing this in Violet's room would prove this.