The photo I have chosen is of a girl who is lying on a set of stairs, this is a wide shot from a low angle. This shot could be described in terms of genre as a horror/thriller, and possibly a mystery/crime. This is signified by the the girl on the stairs and the the pair of legs that can be seen higher up the stairs. This could be a mystery or thriller because it is ambiguous who pushed the girl down the stairs and whether she was even pushed down the stairs by that person or at all. The harsh blue lighting, produced by the coloured lens heightened our genre of horror as it created a cold, eerie atmosphere.
2. What did you actually do to achieve the effect?
To achieve this affect we didn't allow the face or race of the person higher up the stairs to be seen, this left the still to be full of ambiguities.
3. How did you intend the audience to interpret your still? What narrative moment were you attempting to create? What meanings were you attempting to communicate? We wanted the audience to wonder what happened to this girl. How did she fall, was it on purpose by someone pushing her, or was it an accident and she tripped? Moreover we aimed for the audience to question the previous chain of events that happened before this episode. The viewers could further question who the person above on the stairs was and what their role was (if any) in the incident.
4. Identify what is successful about your shot.
Our shot worked well as to establish curiosity in our audience. It suits our genre perfectly and magnetises the viewers.
5. What would you do differently in hindsight? A positive modification of our shot could be for it to be less wide to reduce how much of the white walls could be seen and bring the girl lying on the stairs into focus more.
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