Our intentions for our film, Possessed was for it to be a thriller for people over the age of 15. We did not want to outright scare our audiences but we did want to make them feel uneasy. We did this with the shots that we created, the music that we used and the lack of emotion shown on the main character.
In our film we used a variety of different shots. Our film starts with a forward tracking shot into the bathroom and a panning shot around the room from right to left. At the beginning of the shot there is a door whit a female sign on it clearly showing that the setting is in a girls bathroom. You see the girl standing at the mirror. This was a long shot to see the whole of the girl and the fact that she was alone. There is then a straight cut to an extreme close up on the eye of the girl. The eyes then startle open. We wanted this to make the audience jump. We then zoomed out to show the whole of her face. I feel like we could of emphasized her eyes opening with a dramatic non-diegetic sound post production to startle the audience even more.
We wanted to show the main character as emotionless and a bit detached. We did this with the facial expressions on her face and with that she didn't have any dialogue with anyone. We also made it so that she was the only one in the bathroom at the beginning to show that she was isolated. This was trying to show that she was possessed. We originally wanted her to be the only one in the corridor when she walked through it but obviously that would be difficult as we were filming in a school environment.
In this film we used both diegetic and non-diegetic sound. We used non- diegetic sound with the creepy music that we added to accompany the shots. We wanted it to be soft and very sinister to make the audience on each and anticipating what was going to happen next. The diegetic sound that we used was the banging of the stall doors that we created whilst filming.
