Setting

Our Settings:

I feel that our setting was the convention that developed the most and therefore matched the narrative effectively. As originally, our ideas were very stereotypical.

Such as a forest, bedroom and dark street.

Although audiences would have been familiar with this, it doesn’t add much into the opening plot. Of which we needed a strong opening that included many conventions. If we had the antagonist

walk down a dark street with the monologue talking about what she did, the visual support wouldn’t have been as strong as it was.

As we were only creating an opening, we needed this to be a strong as possible and forebode the rest of the film, so our audience would understand what was to come

So by having a realistic setting that matched the voice over and antagonist, it influenced the overall piece to have more verisimilitude. For example, we were lucky that our school changing rooms and the

toilet weren’t modern looking of which we could use to make look like a prison changing room/hall. With the rest of the conventions we were

able to develop the idea of this to be more similar to a prison.

- Changing room, you can see that the wood isn’t modern and the long corridors create a space for the antagonist to walk and therefore create tension

IssuesIf we were do change anything about the setting, it would be the flashback sequence. This was very similar to how we had it at the start, but it could

have been adapted to match the antagonist more. For example, the setting could have matched the personality and age of the antagonist more – and

therefore being more appealing to the audience as they are the same. Such as the antagonist’s bathroom or school.

However, saying that, having it in a different setting adds more tension and mystery. Going against the norm adds a sense of abnormality into the

antagonist’s actions and personality, which we were going for. Therefore, we could have incorporated both in order to adds verisimilitude and be

appealing for audiences but also add tension and unease for the audience.