After having organised our storyline, we were able to organise the two places we wanted our filming to occur. The first place (house) belonged to one of the members of our group and we had to ensure that we had finished all of the filming before the new year. As our other location was a public area that wouldn't have changed much in the course of a couple of weeks we decided it was more important to film in the empty house (suited to our needs) before it was redecorated as this would not have been fitting to both the tone and the atmosphere we tried to create.
The empty house conformed to the conventions we needed with regards to mise en scene as it was darkly lit, completely plain and presented a blank canvas for us to film in. We set up the room and waited for our actress to arrive, to create the effects of hard high key lighting we used torchlights on both main and fill lights but positioned them in such a way that the shadow was created from the brighter main light to pick out features of the actresses face and make the tear more prominent in the scene.
The bathroom scene in the first chosen location was simplistic and darkly lit, we used this to keep to the codes and conventions of the genre as it presented a dark, dismal environment for our actress to take a bath in that she falls underneath. (similar to the bath scene in 'what lies beneath').
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