Evaluating the microproduction video
Normal music used in horror films use music with common instruments such as violins, pianos and drums. The music we included created tension, we edited the volume of the track as the tension in the video rises to make the intro seem a lot more frightening and dramatic, for example when the young child puts her hand on the main characters back at the end of the intro, the music volume rises to the highest it can go.
Similar conventions we used in terms of sound effects are, usually in "jump-scares" in typical horror films, a loud violent non-diegetic sound such as a drum, or shrieking violins have a short dramatic come and go to make the audience jump and to emphasise the horror in that particular scene. We used this technique during the scene when the main character turns around in the reception of the quiet college to see the evil girl standing at the stop of the stairs. Other sound effects that we included were the little girl humming, this lasts from the very start until the door stops shaking halfway through the video, this is to connote that the girl, after shaking the door trying to enter, has left the building and left the main character alone.
For mise en scene, we changed the filter for every shot from normal to day to night mode to give the intro a blue tone to make the whole thing look darker and more at night. This is to make the intro a lot more scarier and more realistic to bigger film productions. Props I brought to make the video was a torch (which we ended up not using), red food dye to act as a substitute for blood (I used to make small films for YouTube a few years ago and used this as a realistic alternative for blood.) You can see this being used on the tissue at the start and end of the intro, the main characters face and slightly on the evil girls hands. I also brought and used an eye shadow pallet. This was to make the main characters white vest look dirtier, as well as her face. I also applied pink and red tones under the main characters eyes to make her appear tired and fatigued to make her story a lot more believable and make the quality a lot more higher.
The locations we used in the intro are the reception in the college, the meeting room next to the reception desk (which we booked), and the stairs leading to the reception room. Although this was the best place we could of used in our video because all three of us didn't see each other outside of college, it did challenge the normal conventions of locations in horror films. Usually the locations used are dark and deserted places such as forests, empty buildings, churches etc.
The character type is of the normal type in horror films, a strong person who fights for life and safety, so this is similar.
The editing pace of the film was somewhat faster when the tension builds, for example when the door opens when the evil child tries to get in. This is to make the scene appear fast and tense. This is typically used in horror films for the same reason.
The camera angles we used for the intro were a hand-held camera of the main character used for a type of camera diary hence why she says "Day 8, I think that thing is still following me but I'm not sure though." This is used in a lot of films such as The Blair Witch Project. We also used close up, medium close up and even a CCTV angle shot to show a wide high angle of the scene to help the audience grasp what is happening. The CCTV technique is used a lot in horror films.
Young social groups are represented as strong independent people in this intro because the main character appears to be strong and independent because she is going through the trauma of being stalked by an evil entity on her own and dealing with the whole thing very well. This intro also makes children appear evil and creepy because of the use of children in this film introduction.
[I cannot upload the video here just yet because I don't have access until we can have the macs again.]
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