Lighting
We chose a scenery which provided natural light, when filming the lighting was too bright for our movie to come across as eerie and dark. In result, we edited the lighting through Final Cut to express the dark, tense atmosphere. It created an ideal effect for the antagonist to pursue his evil doing. The time of day we chose was late afternoon that gave a reasonable amount of light, it gave dim effect. Also, the forced light coming from the computer screen and a side lamp lights up Chloe's face; bright enough for the camera to see her. IF the lighting from the lamp or computer brightened Chloe's face too much then, yet again, we would edit it through final cut. Taking down the huj saturations or the shadow and lighting.
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editing
The editing style we chose was fast paced which accompanied our o.t.s, the effect it emitted to the audience was dramatic and frightening. In conclusion, the audience was made to feel a sense of fear and anxiety; which is what we are aiming to achieve by the purpose of the researching and following by the "Daemon". Our editing showed a lot of demonic images and articles based on demonic possessions or rituals. In between or during the frames, editing such as 'static' which is the fuzzy/distortion sound as well the static image of grey/black and white lines you would tend to see. It gave us the idea that it had lost signal or something was making the system lose connection, as if to say not to go on the demon related item or that something was near by. This idea was inspired from 'The Grudge (2004)' and from 'Paranormal Activity 4 (2012)'.
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PROPS
In our OTS we used a variety of props to add an effect to our horror OTS. We used Quick Time Player to film our OTS, through the Mac webcam. The use of a webcam camera is that it provides a POV experience from the audiences perspective. As well as that, it provided a feeling of being watched giving the unsettling feeling of discomfort. We also used props such as: the cloak which Jack Woodard wears for the evil spirit, the rotating chair, a hand held camera, a forced light resource, the books for research and the Mac for research also.
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