This week, Nancy, Jess and I started the video section of our trailer for the (fictional) horror movie, Penumbra. We used various shots and a variety of environments to do so, including slow-pans, over-the-shoulder shots, and a mixture of angles. The use of camera shots such as slow pans increases the intensity of the scene, and allows the viewer to anticipate what the camera is moving to. This creates interest in the scene as the viewer becomes more curious as to what the camera is panning to from the previous image, and creates suspense in the scene which again draws the viewer to the scene.
We also used environments such as an autumnal wood, a dim corridor
and a slender, shaded tunnel. An autumnal woodland connotes isolation and
emptiness; as the silence may follow you on a walk through it, while also being
sinister in the sense that you are exposed in harsh, hollow daylight. Whereas a
dim corridor may also be sinister; but in the sense that you are not exposed,
but walled in, with no exit besides what is in front – and behind.
In conclusion, the making of our currently soundless scenes was
aiming for a sense of isolation and desolation, while also dissipating the numb
silence with ominous dread of what is to come, and what has already. Our shots
were largely successful at achieving the sense of barrenness, but we could
improve on this by adding audio or visual effects. The experience of making
this was surely enjoyable, and I hope for it to continue that way.
