Watch the video below. Intensely.
As you may have been able to tell, it was the trailer of Sinister (2012). Upon viewing this myself, I believed that tension within the trailer arose wholly due to the background and lighting. It was able to build the scene better. The frame came to life. If there wasn't a wall covered in paper, post-its and photos the effect wouldn't be the same. Similarly with the lighting, if there was a bright light, it wouldn't look as though he had been looking at the footage for a long time. He'd seem as though he was in perfect health. Try re-watching the trailer again (from 40 seconds), and see whether it has the same effect if the wall behind him was bland and the lighting bright.
From a TV Drama that I watched religiously, Sherlock, I was also inspired by their wall scene. Usually one is seen at least every episode from the main character Sherlock. Yet one particular episode - scene 1, episode 3 - stood out to me due to the messiness of the newspapers which are neat from Sherlock's point of view. That made me believe that those in charge of set design wanted this character to look crazy and 'out of his mind' so to speak.
Hopefully, through this picture you are able to see the extensity of these newspapers, post-it notes and pieces of string. A mass amount of the wall scene makes me believe that this character is being irrational and allows his thoughts to take over him, other than the other way around. As wall like these are generally to show a person's thought trail to get them to an ultimate conclusion. I feel as though Ralivia isn't actually that delusional and erratic so a neater, and more confined wall scene would be better to express her thoughts - they've been though through. It also helps the realism as no one who lives in such a tightly controlled space would have enough information to create a wall scene the size seen in Sherlock.
Therefore when it came to me making our wall scene I decided that each individual A3 piece of paper was to show a different aspect (or topic) to Ralivia's childhood. The sheets that I made you are able to see below, the individual details needed, photos and words. However, the major difficulty that I would have is the pins and sting that links them together. The reason being that I am not allowed to actually pin the A3 sheets on the wall that we were to use as it would leave holes. Yet, it still needs to seem as though they have been pinned up (the newspapers and photographs).
So what I did was either use glue; which I scrapped from the glue-stick and placed underneath the plastic coating from the pin. Or used bluetack. Either way I disregarded the actual pin and kept the plastic coating covering the pin. That way it still gave the illusion of the newspapers and photos being held up with pins. I actually believe that that was a better tactic as I was able to make more connections.
My idea for the wall scene was to extract the mind of Ralivia in such a way that the audience knows that she is wise and smart about what's happening around her - leading them to the conclusion that it is actually the drugs that make her erratic. Therefore I believed that each sheet of paper needed to express different fragments of the bigger picture, each A3 sheet a different topic.
I created 8 sheets of A3 paper, that I have attached below.
This was just general 'wall paper' to extend on the wall scene. As you may be able to tell, the newspapers don't actually link with our scenario - they're all very varied. That way I needed to cover the words from the titles with post-it notes, with the intentions of distracting them from the newspapers. If I had enough time and money, I would find more newspapers that linked to our film. Therefore Natalia photo-shopped some newspapers in order to both build on the wall scene and help with our newspapers' topic.
I tried to focus the 'wall paper' above on Ralivia's mother. The majority of the photos (that goes for all the pieces of 'wall paper' has just 'Ralivia' (actually being Natalia) and her mother (Natalia's mother) in them. That way I was able to show that they were closer compared to Ralivia and her Father. Also, that he never really seemed part of the family, it was those two against him. It's just easier to show the family's dynamics though photos.
This 'wall paper' focuses on Ralivia's father, actual photos of Natalia's father are used so that the two men that would be seen are different. As, first of all we don't want the audience to make a quick and easy connection between the men with thin the first two minutes. Secondly, because our initial idea was that the father had surgery to alter his features. Hence why the doctor looks younger currently to how he is then. Also, if you are able to notice, the father is seen at the other end of the paper where Ralivia (as a child - the real-life Natalia) is at the opposite end. Hopefully, it is able to show the distance between them, and witnessing from the other 'wall papers' how secluded he is within the family.
Another general sheet of 'wall paper'. I thought that it would be a good idea to circle around some extracts of text in order to show that some parts of the text were more important. Also, the fact that I had seen it somewhere else may have lead me to do that. Yet, it is effective as it allows the audience to know the detail Ralivia looks at concerning her past. Also, I thought that the pins on the parents faces would be both funny and symbolic, an act of defiance. Able to present that the cause of this may have been from her parents.
All the rest are other general 'wall papers' to build up the wall and scene. Making it look fuller.
If evidence is needed to see me do my wonderful work in action, I have planted some photos here as proof. Bear in mind that the 'wall papers' didn't happen all of a sudden in one evening - they took time and most probably took longer for me to make compared to typing all these blogs.
Pictures of me sticking, cutting and attaching the wall scene.
Making the Wall Scene "Wallpaper" is not as easy a job as it may seem. I have to make the wallpaper in stages to create them in the look in which I felt suitable. Below is the 'Father' wallpaper and the progression of it. Hopefully you are able to see how much of a tedious and tiring job it is.
Stage 1
Stage 2
(Sorry about them being vertical, however I am unable to rotate them horizontally)
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