Bumps in the road!

Today my group experienced a major bump in the road. I had an important doctor's appointment and could not attend class. My other group members also were unable to attend class for personal reasons. We felt that we were running behind, but thankfully we are all good friends aside from class and were able to communicate ideas through the phone. We decided that we really liked the idea of building suspense in our film and we are almost certain we are going to stick with the idea discussed in the previous post, where a noticeable dirty girl is running away from burying a body in the forest/woodsy location. Through group messaging, our team discussed some key mise-en-scene features we wanted to include in our scene.

We decided that the scene will include some sort of flashback to provide context as to what led to this drastic event of a teenage girl burying a body. I suggested that maybe we show her getting ready for a date with a boy and have a voiceover question "so how did we end up here?" This will create an element of suspense because even though the audience knows something will go terribly wrong, they will be eager to know what led to the morbidity of her committing murder.

We want there to be a large contrast from the girl and her surroundings. We want to film the scene at night and have very dark lighting and shadows in a forest-like setting. To create a contrast, we want the girl to be wearing a white dress covered in dirt stains. Since white is a color typically associated with innocence, this will represent how this event has "stained her innocence" and will show aspects of irony. This message will also be conveyed through her heavy makeup that will be ruined, such as heavy mascara that is running down her face, and bright red lipstick that will be smeared all over her face. I included images below that show the image we are striving for in our scene.