Poster - Photo Options

                                         Photo options for our poster:

Here are some of the photos we took on Fujifilm finepix S which is 12 megapixels for a high quality effect. We took them at Rebecca’s house in various locations which included the garage for a creepy old effect, the cupboard for a dull and dark atmosphere along with bottom of the stairs and also in the dining room for a white background. We felt by taking photos in these various places we would have more choice as to what our photo looked like and how effective it is. We therefore had more of a chance of finding the perfect image for our poster.

Close up: we took a close up of Sophie’s face to try and capture her facial expressions and emotions, which is obviously a big feature of this film as her emotions are essentially what drives her to insanity. However, we felt that because of the close up nature of this shot we could not capture her hair, make up and costume which are equally important to show her despair and sadness and struggle that she has been through.

Lighting: Whilst shooting in the cupboard it was obviously very dark which enabled us to create an atmosphere. However, it was so dark that we couldn’t see our character completely clearly, therefore we tried the flash on the camera but we could obviously only point the light in the direction of which the camera faced. Therefore we used the torch on the iPhone to shine onto her face, we could use it left, right, centre, from above and just below her face to create the shadows that distort her face in relation to her distorted and fragmented life.

Mid Shot: We took this full mid shot against a white background.  This is to show her costume and make up, which was an oversized shirt, dark eye shadow to one, show her dirt on her clothes but two to show bruises on her face. Also dark red lip gloss to represent fake fresh blood and hair gel to make her hair look greasy: this represents the struggle and journey she has been on to find answers.

Half Shot: We knew from the start that we wanted a half shot of our character’s face fading into darkness or not in the shot. This is to convey her alter ego side rather than her whole self and to convey her illness, she’s slipping away from normality. However, this photo is completely dark and dull where as we wanted the actual characters face to stand out against the black background.

High Angle Shot: This shot is looking down on our character. Representing how inferior she is which links to representation theory. People see others with psychological illnesses as weak and inferior and therefore stereotype them.