Homework week 3

Brainstorm: Mentally ill person

• ·         Contrasting colours (dark when he is alone/ bright when he interacts with others).
• ·         Packed city living in middle to higher class old English style houses packed together.
• ·         The character display multiple personality disorder and bipolar disorder.
• ·         Mirrors act as a gate way into the characters mind.
• ·         Doors represent options, how the story will progress (evil or good).
• ·         Duality of existence.
• ·         Blood represents chaos and entropy. Each time the main character kills he becomes mader believing he takes on a piece of their soul (personality).

Rationale (explanation for what you're doing and why you're making the creative decisions - DETAILS) At least 500 words:

The scene starts with a high angled wide shot that pans down over a bright sunny day (warm colours are emphasised), the scene contains a large amount of thriving greenery representing life flourishing in the outside world. The scene starts with the song Life is but a dream (non-dietetic) playing in the background with the sound of the breeze and birds chirping (dietetic). The main character interacts with a older woman between the ages of 40 to 55 walking on the on the opposite side of the street in his direction, they wave and smile at each other in a neighbourly(friendly) fashion. there is foreshadowing in this scene as their paths will collide again but rather in a different and darker way.

The main character walks to his front door in a perspective shot looking on at his average identical house, this represents though on the outside he is average and seems normal his contents like the house is anything but normal but rather filled with hidden horrors. He opens the door where the camera fazes from perspective to an over the shoulder as the character, he walks down the hall into his house stairs and three doors can be seen after entry. The colour scheme changes from the bright warm colours to dark cold colours showing a shift in atmosphere and mood.

The main character in an over the shoulder shot stops at a mirror at the end of the hall showing signs of frustration and anger seemingly out of nowhere , he punches the mirror in front of him fracturing it, all the fractures reflecting his normal face except one which seems evil and twisted. This introduces the darker monstrous side of the character. A sudden flash to a dark room with no doors or light sources only a hunched-up man in a black hoodie covering his face as he sways back and forth on the floor. this room represents the subconscious of the character.

The figure stands up still not revealing hie face to the viewer with a mid-shot from a high angle to build up tension, he faces a mirror broken in two revealing a normal image of the character and the other side revealing the evil twisted version. Mirrors represent the gate to the soul in the movie. In the subconscious room each mirror contains a version of the character. The dark version seems to say something, but it is not audible, however dark low non-dietetic music players in the background. The screen begins to tilt with a ear non-dietetic music playing as the subconscious room begins to distort.

A quick cut scene has the character waking up in his dark room with a black out of what has just happened, this part is mid shot facing the character at eye level. Blood can be seen in the corner of the shot , it then focuses on the blood as the character sees it .suddenly the shot cuts to a high angle and an upside view of the character which rotates till it is level again ,this is done while he stands up looking at his clothes splattered with blood. When the shot cuts to an upside-down view of the character non-dietetic sound starts to build tension. The character sees more blood in the shape of his footsteps leading down the stairs down to the basement. When the shot of the character stands at the top of the stairs is a high angle mid shot. The character is looking down at the house then cutting to a low angle at the bottom of the stairs looking up at him in a wide shot of him at the top of the stairs.