Film Preparation - Wall Scene 2

When we did find a place to put our 'wall papers' what we had was too minimal, and what I made that showed details wasn't enough to do close ups on for the audience to see. Meaning that more needed to be made. Natalia created new newspapers using photoshop that had the photos of the family placed within them. They looked more realistic and it was able to hide the empty gaps that are seen then the newspapers are put up. The newspapers that Natalia photshopped are seen below:

I think that they were really well made, it was useful to use as it made the scene come to life better. Enabling the audience realise the meaning behind the flashbacks, placing the pieces together.

This is the wall scene put together in a location that Natalia was able to find within our school, Chelsea Academy, luckily the room was there and available for the amount of time we needed it for. As it was used as a hospital room, for students to rest if they felt ill, there was a bed and the wall were white. It was the perfect setting for how it was envisioned in the script, there was even a bathroom; where a toilet and sink were seen.

From this you may be able to tell that what you may see in the opening is just a small scale snippet of the location that we actually used. Towards the other side of the door is a toilet, that we didn't actually need for the scene also the room is so much brighter than how Romina edited it to be, more of a clinical white rather than an eerie brown. Which is both good and bad as we wanted the feeling to originally be 'cleansed' but then we had an epiphany to make the ending tenser and scarier, allowing Romina's editing to be highlighted.

As you are able to tell the eight sheets of 'wall paper' that I created wasn't enough to fill near the amount of space on the wall like I wished. Not only was there extra space towards the left of the wall scene (camera work is able to generate the illusion of the wall scene being bigger than it is), there was also space at the bottom of it. Which a camera isn't able to change.

Especially so when we needed close-ups of Ralivia/Romina where the bare wall is seen around her head. I think that it can be interpreted in two ways; one - Ralivia is at peace with herself when she is left with her dreams, two - she's not actually that crazy and deranged as she is shown to be at the beginning. Both allocating the audience to empathise with her as we intended.