Group meeting

Today I met with other groups for the portfolio project, as we discussed all our ideas and theming for everyone's different project. The meeting actually went very successfully. Coming into the meeting, I was very lost on the actual plot and filming direction to go. I was given some very interesting ideas as well. One thing discussed was filming speed. To truly encapsulate the film opening with the direction of being location development based, along with being able to capture a scary wow factor, must be paced slowly. Likewise, I was told to majorly focus on score and sound effects, as commentary and dialogue just wouldn't be able to develop film opening as well as physical sounds would. The horror element trying to be established here is more for developing the mood and character narrative, rather than the actual victim's premise. We also discussed how difficult the background would be to achieve that certain mood of the atmosphere. Hence location scouting must begin very soon, as finding a dark and empty room in a house is kind of difficult. The only place that could aid in this that we discussed could be a garage or bathroom. But that kind of would take away from the mood of the person being in a random bedroom and makes the music coming from the radio awkward. Another issue brought around was the murdering of the character. I thought it would be a good idea to use shadows or implied death such as the movies like Peeping Tom and Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

However, it was recommended to use extreme close-ups, close-ups, and very quick cuts such as those seen in Psycho

I think it would be a great idea to have maybe one or two cuts. Another idea was brought about to somehow find a juxtaposition between an image or sound into the credit scenes/title screen, along with a fade out of the murder dragging the dead body, time permitting of course.