cinematic ideas

Cinematic Ideas

Our short film is a psychological horror, using a narrative portraying a conflict between two characters, portrayed using the mise-en-scene of costume with the main character, Mara,  wearing white and the other character wears black to highlight their opposition. In the first scene of the short film, we plan on using the prop of a chess board that the characters will play to foreshadow the events of the film, with them playing chess they will be face-to-face with one another. Through this first scene there will be no sound except for the diegetic sound of the chess pieces being moved, until the last chess piece is moved and then an upbeat song will begin to play, which will be revealed in the next scene to be a phone alarm for Mara to wake up, thus creating a sound bridge. The transition from the first scene to the next will be made using a graphical match cut from a bird’s eye view/aerial shot of the chess board to a close-up of a phone. She’ll end up in a classroom that will be lit with low key lighting to give off an uneasy feeling. The teacher will be shot using low angles to convey Mara’s fear of them and their power. We will have another sound bridge from when Mara takes her tablet the upbeat music plays, which will be coming from Mara’s earphones in the next scene. In this next scene Mara will be waiting at the bus station with graves behind her, foreshadowing the end of the film. Then it will move onto the final scene of the film, which will be set in the exact same area of the chess scene to imply that this is their final confrontation.