Visual Style(s)
As the film has a number of different locations and scene's, I want each location/world, to have a different visual style. The film starts with the old artist in his studio, where he is depressed and lonely. I will therefore shoot these scene's to match his feelings, in both the colour palette and the camera movements. The colour scheme for these scenes will be washed out and de-saturated. And the camera movements will be slow and smooth, but constantly moving. I will use the tripod, strictly not the rig.
After this scene, the audience (and Victoria) are transported into the fairy world, within the garden. Where Victoria begin's her quest to defeat the curse. These scene's will be shot on location in Hackfall woods in North Yorkshire, a spectacular location with small stone buildings that are going to be used as the fairies homes. I plan to capture lots of aesthetically pleasing shots to show Victoria travelling through these woods, and to her destinations. I will use the tripod again for the majority of the shots in this location, but with a loose head so that I can move quickly and swiftly with it.
The third main location is when she arrives at the labyrinth to defeat the curse. This scene is the climax to the film and will be shot at dusk. It will be filmed at the Droid Temple's, also in North Yorkshire, which is yet another stunning location.
She then walks into the labyrinth entrance, which will be filmed partly in a cave, and partly in the studio. For these labyrinth scene's we want her to look isolated and scared so she will be carrying an oil lantern as the only light source.
Old Artist's Studio (Beth's Grandma's House)
The first scene of the film will be filmed in Beth's Grandma's house in Middleton, along with a flashback scene which will occur midway through the film. The first scene consists of the artist drawing a sheep skull in his attic/studio. He then goes downstairs where he looks out of the window into the garden to see something of interest, so another sequence of shots will be inside this room, and then he goes outside into the garden where he meets the fairies for the first time. Green screen will be used in the garden sequences where he meets the fairies.
Hackwell Woods
Victoria arrives into the fairy world at sunrise, to the first shots will have the sun low in the sky, and these shots will be wides at the top of the woods, overlooking the whole area. Alia's home is seen in the distance.
There will then be a collage of shots as Victoria makes her way to Eva's house, in the middle of the dense woods. By the time she makes it here it is the middle of the day with the sun blasting into the house. They then both set off to Alia's house at the top of the hill, by the time they arrive here the sun is setting, and orange beams are flooding into the home. She is then given a lantern from Alia and then Victoria sets off alone to defeat the sheep skull's curse.
Droid Temple's
Victoria arrives at the Labyrinth entrance, which will be the Droid Temple's. This scene will be shot at dusk, to create an erie mood about it. As she enters the temple's, I want a crane shot that will start low as she walks through the doorway, and then rises high to show her walking through them and shows how grand they are. This Extreme Long crane shot will go as high as possible to make her look more vulnerable. She looks around and then enters the main entrance of the Labyrinth. The camera stays outside the Labyrinth as she disappears into the darkness.
The Labyrinth of the Sheep Skull
This scene will be shot in 3 different locations, one location being a cave in North Yorkshire, which is a risk as we have not been there before. Another being the studio space that we are renting for the project which I have full control over the lighting etc. Ideally I want to do the majority in the cave as I want to pick up the details of the rocks etc in the place, and in the studio we would have to light it for that only Victoria was lit by the lantern. We are also going to try and create shadows of creatures onto the walls of the labyrinth. The third location for this Labyrinth scene will be a surreal shot of her drowning under water, we are currently looking at the best place to shoot this because ideally I would like to be able to light this myself but as we are working with water this may be a challenge with all the health and safety to sort out. Manchester Aquatics centre have an underwater viewing point so this may be a good location to do it.
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