-‘9’: He’s name is yet unknown in the opening as we never reveal his actual identification. This feeds of a sign of mystery and enigma to the audience as even in the camera frames we kept the light dark or his face covered, we never actually let the audience see his facial features. This character was a main aspect to our production as he is the whole reason why the film is intense and allows to build tension within our viewers. He always acts to a calm level and never seems to feel guilt or bother to why he is committing such crime to an innocent girl. It lets us miss lead our audience to why he is doing what he done?
-Laura: She is 18 years of age and is a student and a near by college, a very tender personality and is very sweet, innocent young lady. She is very confident, sociable and outgoing however she has many fears and panics in threatening situations. We wanted this character to pull on the audiences heart strings when she was kidnapped by a dangerous and feared man for no apparent reason, by this we create a connection with out audience as they may feel as if she was caught in a crime she had never deserved to have been placed in.
-Detective Lewis Court: He had many years of experience with cases to such relevance and had a very good name for himself in the detective world, being known as one of the best around. He had struck upon this case as he is asked to solve it, he comes across very indecisive and nervous leading the audience to feel he is struggling. We made his words and actions vast and powerful to symbolize his anger towards ‘9’ at this point we aimed to put the audience in discomfort for the life of Laura and to make them question if ‘9’ would be proven guilty and for Lewis to find the where abouts of Laura.
In our production in does occur we stereotype. With Laura we made her play the innocent student that falls into a crime we shouldn’t have however you cant be mislead, we never reveal she is innocent… in fact there could may well have been a good reason to why ‘9’ kidnapped her but because we used the stereotype and play on it the minority of our audience will follow by first site when she is brought into the sequence.
Our group put hard thought into where we could position our audience throughout the production. Most of what we achieved was on purpose and planned to break our audience down to some that may fall for the stereotypes or the more opinionated that will try and work out a solution. Our Mise en scene helped us position our audience also, for example when we use dark lighting in the camera shot for ‘9’, to symbolize he is the villain in the sequence, or how we place props like run down machinery and a dirty environment to indicate she’s hidden somewhere where no one would look or expect to find her. On the interview scene when we placed a voice over of ‘9’ we supplies a dark, mysterious piano piece playing, all was in order to create a sign of evilness and draw audiences to different conclusions and leave an impression of what the character is like.
Our representation on the characters were both positive and negative and this was to create a fine line of confusion. We needed to liven up our story line to keep the audience interacted and searching for hidden clues in our shots. In crime fiction, the opening of the film typically gives nothing away as the outcome of the film is to feel involved and create your own ideas. We had to remember that after creating our opening, could we have stepped back and if asked, create a whole film of the opening we had just created?
Our group was deeply inspired with a great range of films however our definite concept was to make our film as unique as possible, to try and create a sense of new, to offer a new experience for our viewers. We did grab ideas and tips from other very famous films however we never found the need to copy we let ourselves run of with the idea and make it our own to give it a different feel. It is hard to make a film unique as a great range of ideas and story lines have been created in the past but to make it as unique as we could possibly take our film was always our intension.
Different range of camera shots helped out technically to create mood and representation within our characters. We felt the need to place the camera in various different positions to let the audience question the characters authority. For example; in the kidnapping scene we used a high camera angle as if ‘9’ was looking down onto Laura, I feel this symbolized a great deal of power and it showed how venerable Laura was. We always placed low lighting onto ‘9’ to symbolize his unknown identity and this placed a good mystery for the film to build into.
Below is some pictures i took of my sister for evidence into different types of camera angles:
Above is a picture of me labelling out main character and explaining why we chose his costume and what we purposely done to build him as a character
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