I then looked at one of the previous student's work a few years back and how they recreated the space of a loft in the studio at my college. This is the music video:
The scenes of where the woman is in the darker, closed in space is the feel we wanted to create. As was done before, we know it is achievable; it was simply created by leaning two wooden planks against one-another to create the triangle roof shape which makes it look like a closed-in loft.
This is now one very possible idea for the look of our 'loft'.
I then started to look at the props and things within the scene for our opening sequence. We simply want the props: a camera, a tripod, a laptop, a phone and then a few folders/pens etc, but that's the basic props we need to include. We realised when doing our first draft for our storyboard that the timings of it wasn't long enough so we started to think of things we could include, which revolved around introducing more props such as the folders etc, but we don't want to just add in pointless things to add extra time as otherwise it's meaningless.
I looked at the film 'Disturbia' again and looked at the details within the boy's bedroom where he has his camera and stuff set up and started taking ideas from this setting. These are some of the images I found:
I like the idea of the look of this setting as it looks very set-up and secretive and has a lot of technical gadgets which we could use for the look of our setting, however as the 'Camera man' in our story has an OCD we can't make it look too messy, however we want our audience to get the idea that he has been watching this girl for a while. I like the look of the brown/dark colours and the TV's set up to the camera's as it looks really technical and busy. I also like the look of the crowded space which is being created by all the CD's and rubbish and bed/chairs taking up the room - it makes it feel like things are going on but at the same time it's his home and it's his space. It also creates that feeling that he's been there for a while and is like waiting for something.
The blinds are a really nice look as they feel like the room is being hidden away and because they're lined blinds (they're like bars) it feels really like trapped and it could make our character, if we used the blinds, look really anti-social and unknown/lonely which makes us think/the audience think he's a bit odd and creepy. The light behind the blinds and curtains creates a very darkened/yellow look which makes it look more sinister.
Another thing my group discussed was lighting. At first we had this idea that it would be a single spotlight set up in the studio, just showing a profile of the room - nothing to exciting. We never see the characters face so we didn't know whether the spotlight would work well as it might highlight him more. Plus, of course we want to find out who this man is, but really in the opening sequence we want the audience to be indulged in what he's doing and what the space around him is for and because the space is used for a weird, creepy obsession we want to light this more darker and creepier.
Once looking through the photos of the film 'Disturbia', the lighting in it is darkened but natural. It allows us to highlight things within the room but at the same time not giving too much away. The lighting in 'Disturbia' works nicely as it looks quite shadowy and the light does look homely but at the same time kind of creepy. We then started to come up with the ideas that we could have perhaps a lamp or a light hanging from the top to create some more natural lighting but not too much light that it gives the character away. The yellowy lighting of the lamp in the third picture in 'Disturbia' looks quite sickly but natural and I think that really suits the atmosphere that's going on in the beginning of our opening sequence.
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