Direction Unit: Planning

In my take of "The Park Story" I shall be creating something along the lines of a horror genre. To achieve this I need to have a dark setting. My idea was, as the story progresses the darker the setting will become as the photographer goes deeper into the woods to find the ghost. I plan to put a blueish filter over the footage to give it the creepy and eerie sense that the photographer is being followed. The image on the right is an example of what I want my setting to look like.

The torch will be carried by the photographer and will be used to find where the girl is. I plan on using a hiking torch which has two different brightness settings. The torch is a key prop in the story and will be used by both characters (the girl will only use it in the last scene after the photographer dies). The torch looks similar to the one in the picture.







Another prop which I have chosen to add to the scene is a professional camera, which the photographer uses to capture images of the ghost he's looking for. When he tries to take pictures of the ghost/girl she does not show up when he looks back at the camera which starts to strike fear into the photographers heart. The camera will look similar to the one on the right.







The costumes which I plan to use for the actors have already been planned out. For the photographer he will wear a leather jacket with a white work shirt, jeans and black shoes. For the girl I need a white dress to represent the ghost like eeriness which is represented in modern day media.