Reflective Analysis of "The survivors" (Freya Beck)

Roles: Producer, make-up artist, Cinematographer, music and sound effect.

Location:
We decided to locate the scene in the woods. The woods is a classical convention for a horror story, is quiet, isolated, and has an eerie feel to it. We also decided that this would move things away from the noise of the streets, making our audience believe that there is no civilisation. The woods also restrict an excessive amount of sunlight, giving the film that dull grey toned effect, suggesting that these are dark and horrible times. The woods are also open to slot of free space, with little chance of you running into anyone else, this created the "threat on humanity" image. With only one person running in the woods we give the audience that image of a lone survivor.

Make up:
I decided to keep the make up extremely natural. I evened out complections so there were no dark UN-wanted patches from the sun. I accentuated features such as eyes and gaw lines and cheek bones. This creates more of a masculine image on the character and highlighting areas like the eyes, really open up the face stopping them from looking like dots for eyes. I decided to keep any imperfections on the skin such as spots or scars because these are natural things that many people have. We decided not to do zombie make-up because the zombies face is not seen in a shot.

Music and sound:
I was aware that a lot of films include music when creating a tense atmosphere. I decided to steer away from the normal conventions and try some thing I have seen very little off. I decided use normal sound effects, the sounds of birds chirping or a slight breeze. The normal and relaxing sounds in the background contrasts with the screeching of infected and heavy footsteps. The contrasts of sound confuses the audience making them unsure of how they feel and also it places them into the characters shoes, making you hear what they would usually hear.

Overall analysis:
In conclusion I am very happy with our piece. If I was to do anything differently I would of added extras to create an army of infected, I may of even tried to include music to trigger the audiences fear.