Planning for Shoots- Props and location and cast

Location 1: Forrest.

Our original idea was to film half our media product in a bedroom, and the other half in a Forrest, this is because when we decided to film, it was a misty day and in general looks rather creepy, therefore we filmed our character running through the Forrest. However when we came to editing, we found that if we were to put in a running scene on top of what we already had of the dolls, it would ruin the atmosphere built and therefore we would have to choose one or the other, therefore we chose the dolls, however the Forrest is present in a short shot filmed, when we filmed an image of a 'victim' hanging on a tree swinging in the wind, this in itself was rather creepy because it gives an eerie sense.

Props: Tea cups 

For one of our props we bought tea cups. Our original plan was to take off the stickers and draw flowery patterns on them as at first we thought this would be creepier to what they were at first. However when we came to drawing on them, it was rather difficult and decided they did actually look better in this way anyway. Also we were able to cover them in mud. These shots were also filmed in the location of the Forrest. This was because instead of filming it all indoors we thought this could also be quite creepy because it's as if who ever is playing with them is having an almost teddies bear picnic. 

Props: chalkboard 

For our main credits we used a chalk board and chalk. This is because we decided to hand hold film this and put noise on it to form an old cinematic horror film. I got this inspiration from a horror TV show I have watched in the past called the American horror show. I thought this effect really works with our theme.

Props: images 

This is the example of the 'victim' shot that we actually used. We did shoot 5 however this was the best one to come out. This was also shoot in the forest as explained above. To create this effect we originally printed off images of portraits and manipulated them by hand. I got this inspiration from work in which I have done for photography. We scratched out faces wrote on them and pretty much destroyed them. 

Props: dolls house 

As we choose a child innocence to be manipulated into being creepy, we thought the best and main prop we had to use was a doll house. For our luck, Kaya had this one. I was a very nice and haunting looking doll house which was very lucky and it also meant we didn't have to buy one. It was also rather big which was a good advantage.

Location: Megan's bedroom

As our theme we horror but by manipulating a child like innocence to form it and we are using dolls, we thought it would be a good idea to shoot part of our product in a pretty bedroom. It was very handy that Megan's bedroom resembels the looks which was intended. Above is an image taken from our final product showing what is seen in the product- the mental bed frame. I really like it and am glad we shot the dolls scene here.

Props: wish dolls

Another prop we used was little wishing dolls. These were kayas so we didn't have to buy these. These were very useful because by the size of the dollhouse creates a contrast by the small size of the dolls and the hand playing with them. The person playing with them puts them on the stairs and knocks them down. This is very brutal and suggests a horrific deadly atmosphere around. As you can see from the screen shot, it is on top of a vignette and noise, along with being hand held. I really like these effects with the dolls because I believe they all work together to form that horror feel. Additionally as it was hand held, the focus keeps going in and out which I really like because it gives an eerie effect of someone's watching you.

Make-up

As we are shooting doll different types of dolls- one Dark and one Bright- yet both used to be scary, we came up with different makeup techniques we wanted to use-our main source was by using Pinterest to find and stimulate ideas. Even though these would have been a good idea, we were unable to do this type of makeup our-self. So we took a simpler approach in doing doll make-up. 

Doll 1- Bright doll- We done the stereotypical outlined red lipstick on our doll, with long fake eye-lashes and pink eye shadow.

Doll 2- Dark Doll- We made this doll with the lips not fitting the whole lip- like the first image displayed above. I thought this was a good idea because it showed a good stereotypical doll. 

Costume

This is one of the costumes which we used. The was the one we used for the "Bright doll". Our reasons for this was because the tutu came out like a "stereotypical" doll outfit. This was very important because we wanted to make it as believe as we could, this would later help us in creating that horror genre.