Pictures inspiring our film beginning

For our film beginning we want the mysterious character to be hidden in some way. The Grudge films affectively show this by hiding the Grudge in different ways. For example by having her unfocused, or simply by the lighting. Another aspect of the Grudge character is the fact that she has hair to hide her face, therefore making her a more mysterious character as you can't clearly see who she is.




The shot below is from 28 Weeks Later. This screen shots shows another affective way of making a character mysterious - by having them hiding/ looking through a gap. This makes the viewer unsure of who they are, but the eyes make the viewer clearly see that this character is one of the 'horror' characters in the film. In consideration of how the eyes are affective in this way, we would have to produce affective make-up to show the audience this is the horror character if we showed them hiding in this way, so we have decided not to use this way of making the character more mysterious.