Ideas for Film

Planning Ideas:

Settings:

• Set on a cold, gloomy overcast day.
• Show how the natural elements of the scenery are decaying or dead, shown via the depiction of dead plants, dead leaves and maybe even dead animals.
• Consider possibly shoot in black and white to convey a bleak atmosphere, although this choice would not allow emphasis of the bright red of the blood.

Costume:

• The young boy should be dressed in a shirt, jeans and trainers, all of which are bright in colour. This adds a sense of naivety to him, in keeping with his age, inexperience and well-intentioned behaviour in the situation. Also, this creates a sense of versimilitude since it is not unlikely that a boy in this day and age would wear something like this.
• The killer should wear a long black coat, and possibly a pair of black leather gloves to add to his suspicious, menacing, evil persona, connotively linking him with the Grim Reaper type figure of superstitious folklore.

Visual motifs/aesthetics:

• The colours used should deep, bold and almost stingingly painful to the eyes of the audience, for example, the reds should be really, really red, and the blacks should be really, really black.

Iconography:

• Symbolically, the secluded road acts as a metaphor for a route towards death. This setting should be lit with bright white light, as this serves to symbolise the passing into death.

Poster:

• We are considering using a still image from our finished film, which we feel will perfectly encompass the tone of our film. This image consists of our protagonist and our antagonist caught together within the same frame. Our protagonist (a young, naive boy) is pictured picking up a bloody wallet in the foreground and staring at it in bewilderment. In the foreground is our antagonist, watching the young boy looking at the wallet with murderous intent clearly on his mind.