Wednesday, 20 October 2010

Iconography

Iconography is one of the most important aspects of any media related production. They are important in establishing the genre and setting, for example the use of blood with be seen and straight away seen as danger and a part of a thriller/horror. Whilst a doctors would have needles and heart machines, this would establish the setting. A heart machine would be inappropriate in the middle of the desert.
In our short film the use of props is extremely important in establishing each location, understanding the characters, and establishing the genre.

In the house of the victim, we will see normal households objects to show she lives here and give it that comfy warm feeling. A main object here is the mug. In this shot a mug is dropped and shatters to show distress, panic and danger. Destruction is also relevant to psychological Thrillers. We also see the main antagonist taking pills, this is the object that causes her fate, but this also infers that she has had some type of mental problem, as pills can be associated with illness or psychological problems. However we the see the girl walking with her pet dog, showing that she just tries to live a normal life carrying out normal everyday chores, the dog here is the reason that she leaves her house in the first place allowing the psycho to enter into her home. A lead here is also needed to control the dog when she is seen taking him for a walk.

From outside the house, there will be an Aston Martin parked. This is important in showing her social class, however this contrasts with the taking of the pills because we do not expect to see a white middle class girl taking pills as it assumes she is unhealthy.

In the psychos lair, props used are newspaper cuttings to cover the window and block the light. The scrappy cuttings and dark colours made the mood dull, dim and psychologically the audience will know that something bad is going to happen. In the room also there are to be pictures hanging from the walls of girls, they are scattered about and cut and parts of the faces of girls are crossed out. This can infer the mental state of the psycho. There is also use of scissors- a potentially dangerous object.

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