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the best horror movie
This is Evil Dead which had inspired "Allegory". The piece has great special effects and for it's time, had been a very creative piece of film. Recognized as a cult classic it has a gripping story which occurs mainly in a cabin in the woods. This proves that with a gripping film locations can be kept minimalist.
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This is my other choice for film festivals, this is the one I will be entering into.
These are the festivals had originally looked at, through issues with my designated page Allegory I am re-posting this.
"Puking" will be for the scene in which the actress vomits into a bucket/ toilet. The actress herself had been uncomfortable making the sounds herself, so I explained we will be able to get the sound from Foley. So she didn't have to worry about making vomiting sounds.
This more then likely won't be used however it will be useful to have for additional sound, this could work with a nice melodic music playing, which will also be created by Connor Coxon.
Heavy breathing is Foley but we had also got in on set. I wanted to make sure I had a back-up sound of heavy breathing to make sure the sound was quality enough and audible.
This had been in the white room in which she consumes the red contents of a white bowl. She consumes it quickly which is why these gulps are needed to show that she has a feral side.
The door slam may will be used for the studio build/ White clinical room. The slamming of the door is the demonstrate the young woman being locked into the room. In the script she attempts to run back out of the room, but whilst filming I felt that I would leave her running out, I felt it was unnecessary.
This is one of my requested sounds based from my sound list I devised. This sound in particular will be used for the hallway location. The lights are out of focus, and this sound will be used to emphasis the lights waking the young woman as she is wheeled down the hallway.
Camera techniques
Pull focus: This technique will adopted to enhance the piece, this will most notable in the shot of the subject eating food. Symbolism of a dark figure leering over their prey will be enforced here. Focus on the bowl – white and clinical, pulling toward a shadow figure, pale with hair disguising her face.
Trombone shot: The trombone shot will be used as a signifier for unnerving the lead character. Seeing a young man using teleportation, this demonstrates that she has been trapped by someone dealing in the supernatural. Whilst being a creative shot I feel that this would be a useful, for this situation.
Jib/ birds eye shot: The Jib will be used to enable me to get a bird’s eye shot of the set build. Female subject is the only contrasting colour the plain white backdrop. The floor is clinical and she is moving around erratically; Bird’s eye view will be used on various shots but with similar effects.
Slider shot: The slider had been used for a movement for what would normally be stationery and unattractive it creates a dynamism. It also creates abstract movement, when shot cleverly gives the essence of confinement and distress.
Track and dolly: This will mainly be used for the studio build, I will also be using dolly for shot in the long white hallway. To give the piece a diversity of looks, this is also once again to get movement into the piece. The wheel chair movement will be created through the use of the dolly too.
P.O.V. shots: The POV shots will mainly be handheld.
Slow motion: Using clever editing I’ll achieve this effect.
Fast motion: Using clever editing I’ll achieve this effect. This fast motion will be inspired by Evil Dead.
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This had been a useful video of how to create a teleportation effect using after effects. Which is a simple and great way to get my idea onto screen.
Special effects
Allegory will have many special effects in the piece some computer generated, make-up, blood effects, lighting effects and colour grading effects. I will be making a breakdown of these special effects; documenting tests and uploading them on my Blog. I have worked with slow motion shots, computer generated effects but not man made effects such as blood. My camera operator Liam Robson will assist me throughout to ensure we both have a good understanding of how they work. Adventurous shots means Liam Robson will need to practice and educate himself on how they can be achieved.
Character information
Characters/ extras
Scientist 1#: This scientist is a simple character played more like an extra. He will observe the female subject in the room. Scientist one is a lackey scientist who only observes the female for short periods of time. He observes moods, actions, health and mental stability. Scientist 1# has few speaking roles about the condition of the female. It will be a short piece of dialogue for the actors/ extras.
Scientists 2#: Originally I had wrote a reveal that scientist would become the father of the girl named “Sara” who is confined in the room. However I thought this wouldn’t work as a character arc. I felt that by him being the father of the girl, why would he bring her to the facility to be experimented on. Although I can come up with reasons as to why it could work I felt that by separating the female subject from any links with people, it would show her desolation. I will be using the scientist as a secondary observer and almost like a partner to scientist 1#.
Workmen/ grunt: His job is to give a tray of food to the subject in the room. The tray is slid in and using a wire attached to the tray he pulls it back out without coming to any harm. Assisting when the subject is aggressive, he pins her down whilst an injection is imitated. Time passes and the character gets savagely attacked by the female subject.
Female subject: She has been placed into a traumatic scenario and is dealing with it as any person would in terror. White room, is used as a terrorist torment. This one however is to play part of Plato’s allegory. I will be showing a decline in her mental state, which will inevitably happen after been tramped for a certain number of time. The outside world becomes a distant memory and practically forgotten. Experiments are undertaken in an attempt to change her, this is shown through food products being changed. A bowl of a thick red substance is the initial meal she is provided with until after she is sedated. She then is provided with bread, gradually being introduced to different food products. The scientists decide that this is of stable enough mind to be able to eat her food with cutlery. Character changes rapidly throughout, scared, aggressive, tamed, ill, to Wiley and aggressive. The illness she encounters is through the consumption of normal food products.
Additional character – Young man: A white room, a simple set up with a bed inside. Propped up as the female subject is wheeled past. Teleporting from is bed to an upright position at the hatch of the room he stares at the trolley travelling by. Reason why he can’t leave is because every room is specifically designed for individuals although all rooms are the same aesthetically. How to Teleport: I will achieve this through a recent clip I have watched by Film Riot, using After Effects. By simply using a puff of smoke and clever editing, teleportation can be achieved. One of many powers I will be considering for the young man. I have also considered: Telekinesis, imitation. Both very achievable with After Effects and clever camera work.
Research Idea influence
This piece is influenced heavily by horror genre, I have looked at several variations of film. Watching the matrix and researching into what influenced the world created by the Wachowski brothers. They had also been influenced by Plato’s allegory of the cave. This theory questions reality and what is real. ‘If people have been trapped in a cave all their lives, their perception of reality is what they perceive in the cave. Reality comes in the form of shadows that flicker in the cave. When a man breaks his shackles and leave the cave, he experiences the outside world for the first time. Realising that the reality/ world he was in had not been reality at all. He had difficulty adjusting his eyes, before discovering the new world.
Evil Dead has influenced me through creative shots, I have labelled it in my shot list. The opening scene of a speedy shot travelling over a woodland area. Following a similar outcome I aim to do this from a plain white corridor. To achieve this my camera operator – Liam Robson, will need to research how to achieve this shot. I will be able to manipulate the shots to make sure they are perfect for the piece. Behind the scenes of the Evil Dead (2013), it talks about how they did some of creative shots they did… The makeup was really good in this film, I will be looking at getting some quality standard make up for my piece for the end scene. As in my script the ending is of the female subject leaving the facility that captured her. She then leaves and experience the outside world again, it had been over a year, so she is dazed by the sunlight. A sense of happiness and relief, the sun hits her skin. She starts to burn, her skin starts to turn black which then burns up her arm.
Allegory script
I have completed the script for Allegory, I have also completed a shot list in correspondence to the script. I imagine changes may occur as time goes on, the hardest part of writing the script had been the background story of the woman trapped in the white room. Answering why she had been trapped in the room, why have they trapped her, who are the people who have trapped her. I feel that I have answered these questions in the piece. i hope that it is going to be conveyed to the viewing audience.
This is my inspiration for my piece; “Other Worldly” (working title). My story starts from having a bright white corridor leading to a grand double door. Moans and groans are heard, like a nail to a chalk board. As the doors open, there lay a box. A box suspended, almost as if it is floating onto nothingness. Inside is a shadowed figure, the sounds of moaning stops. Moving in closer, the shadowed figure is revealed as a young women. Her hair long and ungroomed; her face itself had been a deathly white colour. She is still, breathing heavily seeming to become agitated. She leans back her head and releases a deathly squeal. The noise is other worldly…
Time passes, as indicated by a large timer at the back of the room. It says ‘0156’, a clank from a hatch alarms her. Something is slid through on a tray, then the hatch clunks shut once again. On the tray there is white bowl, and a plastic cup. The young woman starts to crawl on all fours toward the bowl, she looks around the room as if someone else is there. She quickly thrusts her hands into the bowl and gauges on the contents. Once consumed she grows the bowl back on the tray and ejects back onto her bed. She cowers for sometime after eating the food. Her mouth and hands are stained red, from the contents…
0207: shadowed figures are looking through a small hatch which is open to reveal a two way mirror. The observers are shocked from not being able to see the young women. A bed side cabinet had been knocked onto the ground. The draw had seeped out some Victorian style trinkets. A hair brush, with a intricate design and a logo, engraved onto the head of the brush. One of the asks the other where is Seven? A hand reaches for the brush, “Seven” holds the brush at it’s head; and starts to bash it against the floor. She then try’s using the bristles to scrub her feet and starts to laugh loudly. Shocked she quickly throws her hand to her mouth to stop this noise, chucking the brush across the room as she does so. “The subject still doesn’t show any sign of cognitive reasoning. Zero human contact has made Seven severely under developed.”
I’ll continue the story once I’ve thought more thoroughly into logistics.