Shots taken/Mise-en-scene

 Shots taken for our movie poster

Head and shoulders medium close up - This was one of the images taken by my partner Holly when we were taking images for our movie poster. We tried it against a white background and found that it was effective, and even the shadow created we found to have an effect and be a good way to show horror as shadows are a convention of horror. For the mise-en-scene of this shot, aside from the white backdrop, we also had the obvious wound makeup which stood out really well with the rest of the image being white.

Mid shot: In this shot, we decided to try a black backdrop instead. While it was effective, we found that having a black backdrop would limit the simplicity of the font we could use when creating our poster, as it would not work as black or white, and any other colour would look odd. To get the boldness and intensity of the image however, we found that having the room pitch black and using just the flash of the camera as the source of light, our shots were clear and bright and the elements we wanted to stand out such as the wound and white gown really did stand out. The mise-en-scene for this shot was a plain background as once again, we felt it would help the white colour to stand out, but also felt as if it limited us due to the red blood effects not being as prominent, which we felt was more important than the white dress to stand out.

Mid shot (2): For this next option, we once again used the techinique of having all the lights off and using the camera flash. once again the image came out clear and bright and looked intense, but again we felt it didn't work well for a movie poster, due to the positioning of myself in the shot and the contrasting colours. We found that having the white gown against the black backdrop was good binary opposition and linked back to our trailer well as black and white is a running theme, but still felt as if it wouldn't work as a film poster, but looked more like a promo shot or shot from the film itself.

Close up/head and shoulders shot: This was the image that we decided to use for out film poster after receiving feedback from our target audience who said it would work best as a film poster. We felt the same as we noticed that there was more space above my head for thw film title to go, and with the mise-en-scene being all white for the most part, font colours would show up clearly and well. We also felt it was taking a new unconventional approach to film posters due to the majority of it being bright and white. We got inspiration for the mise-en-scene of the bloody wound against a white setting from the poster for 'Sinister', and the shot we got inspiration from 'Insidious'.