In our short film, we had a prop as the main character. Mercy is a china doll, we used a china doll as they are known to be in horror films, and they are effective in those films. Examples of the films which use china dolls are, SAW, Chucky and Poltergeist, these are all big and well known films which incorperate China Dolls, which are used effectively to create the scare factor. We used a more realistic and more human looking doll as it was meant to look like and replace a child. We believe it was effective as it was similar looking to a child. For the piece we were able to photo shop photos together, using real life photos of normal people, and then editing the face of the china doll into the pictures, making them look realistic and creepy. It also makes it clear to the audience what we was trying to get across (that the doll, is taking the place of the human child). The pictures was important as otherwise the audience may not understand that the doll is the child. We looked through different websites to find scary but real looking china dolls, then settling on this one, she has dark hair which is seen a lot when using china dolls for an evil purpose.: In our short film, the owners of the house leave the key under the mat. There is a close up of the key we used (On the right), its a big old one almost like this key shown. The key of a house can show a lot about it. A big old key generally means its an old, mysterious house. It can also mean theres something supernatural or different going on in the house. The key in this film (The Skeleton Key) is connected and related to scary events throughout the film. You dont normally see normal-modern looking keys in horror films as it doesnt show anything abnormal and strange going on, and the audience will look at it as something normal and non-suspicious, where-as if the film makers use a bigger and older key, it isnt as normal and they will begin to realise something is going on and something about the house or the key is abnormal.
This is a picture of the house used in the short film, during the day. The reason we used this house is because during the night it looked quite eerie and old. This made the audience and the character feel like it was abnormal and strange. The street is also full of houses which are old and victorian looking, making it seem mysterious. We decided to film during the night as it would create an eerie and mysterious setting. Its also a common code and convention in horror films, as it is generally during the night when things go wrong and problems arise. As the road also had no one on it, it made it look quite secluded and that no would would help if needed. Abandoned buildings and isolation are also common codes and conventions of horror films and create a scary atmosphere, the audience will also start thinking something abnormal is going to happen during the films.
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