Cinematic Ideas for Practical

Our short film is a psychological horror, using a narrative portraying a conflict between two characters, portrayed using the mise-en-scene of costume with the main character, Mara, wearing white and the other wearing black and with the character’s game of chess. The first scene will be a dream with no sound, until the last chess piece is moved then an upbeat song will play, that is contrapuntal sound, this will be revealed to be a phone alarm for Mara to wake up, thus creating a sound bridge, highlighting the scene is a dream, high brightness and low contrast will also show this. The transition from this scene will use a graphical match cut from a close-up of the chess board to a close-up of a phone. She’ll go to class that will be lit with low key lighting and the teacher will be shot using low angles to imply Mara’s fear of them. We will have another sound bridge when Mara takes her tablet, which will be coming from Mara’s earphones in the next scene. In this next scene Mara will be waiting at the bus station with graves behind her, foreshadowing her death. It ends in the same setting as the beginning with the same positioning.

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