Citizen Kane-low angle shot / Costume

 Citizen Cane, to many is considered the most important film ever made. Looking at the film and for insparation and, extrapulated this important shot to help us with our own shots, storyboards and desired effects. This shot is particularly important because it had never been seen before in film, building the set on a stage to create this exiting new low angle shot. Luckily for us part of our opening sequence is filmed on an actual stage, which came in handy when creating our very own Citizen Kane low angle shot.

Costume
Also in this freeze frame, as an audience you will notice the "damsel in distress" is sporting a white cardigan and white trainers, (she is a modern, damsel) this juxtaposes the black background. The contrast will signify to the audience, that this character is innocent and pure, and is vulnerable. The black backdrop portrays the setting as one of danger,of mystery and enigma. The black curtain acts almost as a huge shadow, which puts the audience at an unease, because the character is unaware of the danger she might be in. Everything in the mise en scene has been thought about in fine detail and, this scene is frame to create this desired mood. I suggested this part of the school especially for the mise en scene, i had my heart set on doing the genre of horror from the very first lesson. Which is why we have followed some basic rules of classic horror. Of course if we had the facilites to do so, it would be closer too a classic horror, however we worked with what we had, and so far we have been doing this well, now the success off the final piece will fall down to the quality of the editing.

This shot is framed like this to specifically out line the contrast between both characters, its an anchorage of the idea of good verse evil. The meanings of black and white signify to the audience who is who, what may happen and who's the goodie and who's the baddie. Black and white juxtapose each other, they are two different extermes of shades. If you notice, the trainers are both the same brand, and are typically worn by young teenagers, which signifys to the audience that her killer, is perhaps one of her peers, and someone she knows. which adds a more creepy feel to the shot, and effectively to the feel of the film. Which also reflects real life, which is more terrifying then any film made in history. With the underlineing issue of- you are more likely to be attacked/ killed by someone you know rather than a stranger, in the back of our minds, we always have a thought that we may have stared our possible muderer in the face, which brings that gut feeling and that is the feeling we were hopeing to capture in this frame.