For this question we have used the 9 picture frame shot. Above, are our most important frames in our final piece, those pictures are what we feel create the atmosphere and mood of the film.
The first picture is a shot of the name of our film, we used this so that the audience are aware of what film they're watching, this is a code and convention of the opening scene to a movie.
The second shot is an image of our protagonist character as he walks down the alley to his house. It is important that we showed the audience our main character in the opening scene as they would want to see who he is and what he looks like, this is also the only person we introduce in the opening scene, making the audience wonder if he's a family man etc. Revealing the character in the opening scene is also an important code and convention of the opening scene to a movie.
The picture on the top right is an establishing shot, we used this shot to set the scene and location of the film, so that the audience are aware as to where this is being filmed.
The picture to the left in the middle is a shot of a table with a mysterious object on, you can also see that the lighting is quite dull and the colours associated with the shot are quite dark. This is all been done to emphasize the genre of the film, the dark colours resemble a mysterious and scary man and the object on the table makes the audience wonder what type of man he is and why he has objects like this in his house, maybe this symbolises the name of the film; Hidden?.
The middle picture is a shot of a chopping board, pepper and knife. We used these objects because we felt they created a sense of danger and the objects themselves related to death. We used a large pepper as it resembled the shape of a heart and blood red in colour. The large lethal looking knife was used as it provided a sense of foreboding and menace. Although this image has nothing to do with the film and the props don't play a part we thought we'd include it to bring a sense of intrigue upon our audience.
The picture in the middle right was used because it shows him walking down into the cellar, which is in fact one of the most important scenes in our final piece. As our character walked down the stairs we filmed a high angle shot upon him, this shot shows that our character is a dominant and strong person. We thought that we should include a cellar in our final piece as we believe it brought a new mysterious location to our film. Having watched many Horror films, I am aware that cellars/basements are used quite a lot, where the main characters hide mysterious possessions as they are hidden away from the house and the world. We felt that this was a great way to entice our audience in and to make them think what is the relevance of this cellar in the film?
The bottom left shot is an over the shoulder shot of the man in the cellar, this location is one of the most important places in the film, this is where the man keeps his 'hostages' or 'prisoners'. We felt that it was very important that the audience were introduced to this location early on so that it becomes a familiar place to them.
The next image is an over the shoulder shot of the 'hostage' looking at the man. We used this to too create a threatening and eery atmosphere, we also wanted the audience to be aware of the girl that was being kept in the cellar, this would have left the audience asking a to of questions as to why she is there?
The last image is a blank screen, this is where we end our opening scene, we left it on a blank screen to leave the audience wanting more and to leave it on a cliff hanger.
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