Establishing shot

 The establishing shot sets up the scene, and signifies to the audience what the film is about. A low angle shot of the front of the school is an anchorage of what the film is about. The low angle shot makes the school look haunted, and gives if an intimidating feel.

 The school building is the perfect scene for our film genre of horror. The building is old and contains a Gothic quality's much like churches and, building you might imagine from classic Gothic literature. Even more so when we convert the colour to black and white. The low angle shot gives the building an important status, the building is portrayed as high and mighty. You might also believe and feel as though the building was a character in its self, and bares dark qualities like the beast. I personally would treat the building in this way, because it plays an important and significant role. The school engulfs the helpless girl, and also acts as a partner in the monsters gruesome crime. (This shot was used for the opening, which will also include the title sequence)

 This shot was also on of our initial ideas, Which was also initially our favourite shot whilst filming, and we made a unanimous decision that this would be our establishing shot, however when we began to edit, we discovered another shot we experimented with, which was more suited to the role.

 Even though we had made a decision already made, just to be on the safe side and to give our self a wide variety of establishing shots to use for our film, filming the back of the film also became an option. Although we had taken time to film this part of the school, however the external buildings didn't have a place in the mise en scene, if we had no other options then this would have been acceptable, how ever we have other options which we shall use.

Nick had an idea, which was to have a sequence of shots of the school, one after another as the title sequence rolled. However the initial idea made more sense to have one still shot of the exterior of the building where the crime and drama takes place. Hopefully if the weather co-operates there will be clouds in the sky, and we can speed it up using after effects, the use of this effect Will create a pathetic fallacy, which will signify to the audience what they might expect from he rest of the film, the pathetic fallacy is necessary at this moment in the film, because our project is to create the first two minutes of a film.
 Moonrise has been a huge influence on my personal vision of the film, the idea for the use of pathetic fallacy came from Frank Borzage, If I could I would have used the use of shadows, however we don't have the lighting to create this effect.