Montage

Source of Inspiration: Montage Sequences

We came across some trouble when originally planning our death scene and chose to leave the murder vague within our storyboard as to refer back and add in detail as we began to produce the piece.

We found it would be difficult to incorporate supernatural elements into our death without any expertise in special effects or skilled acting so we therefore decided it would be best for the killing to occur off screen, adding an air of mystery to our plot as an unnatural inhuman event, allowing our audience to themselves envision what they believe to have happened.

To accompany this idea, I looked into montage sequences used in other horror films to disorientate the viewer. We decided that by compiling a number of shots related to the plot context and of gruesome images would allow us to maintain an uncomfortable experience for the audience and to enforce fear due to their lack of understanding and the fast pace of the transition between shots.

After having storyboarded ideas we chose to include shots of:

• The clown (at different proximities, moving farther away from the camera and then appearing at an awkward and incredibly intimate distance to finish)
• Various violent weapons (a crowbar, the blade of a saw and a hammer struck towards the camera)
• Victim (having his neck snapped shot at different angles and lying dead upon the floor)
• Disgusting images (maggots, rotten apples)
• Point of view shots to mimic a victim running to escape (through the tunnel and up the stairs)
• Repetition of previously used skyline shots to refer back to the isolation anonymous London location (edited to appear with a newly green trint to represent the supernaturtal elements of the city now apparent)