In our first cut of our film opening dolls domain we put all the ideas and planning that we had created previously into action, helping us create our fist cut. We came up with the idea of having our title and subtitles written on a chalkboard, in creepy, almost childlike handwriting. The use of the chalkboards helped to give a 'victorian' effect which was suggested to us from our focus group, and the childlike handwriting added to our horror genre. I filmed these scenes holding the camera 'hand held', this added to the creepy effect we were aiming for.
We wanted to stay true to our 'doll' theme, and decided that heavy horror style music (e.g with screams or harsh noises) would distract the audience. Instead we decided to add a mixture of different creepy sounds with space in-between each one to create tension, as shown in the image above. We added a music box tune (long green bar), this music was great at being soft and subtle yet building tension and atmosphere as the audience were always aware of it ringing in the background. We added over it Kaya's narration but in whispers, we broke these up and added them over the music box tune at random times (small broken green bars), when I was recording Kaya's narration, we decided to try out lots of different tones in her voice, one being a whisper, this one worked the best and added a really creepy effect to our production. Throughout we have several other short noises such as a childs outburst of laughter, and the winding up of a music box.
We decided that the best way to get the idea of the dolls being having the same, evil persona's yet with slightly different apearances was to use the same actor, but slightly alter each the makeup, hair and dress for 'each person'. We wanted one doll to have a classic doll look, we dressed our actor in a spotted corset and black tutu, with bright red lips, blushed cheeks and big eyelashes we also tied her hair up in bunches. This worked to get a classic creepy doll look across, whilst also being creepy. For our second doll we decided to have a slightly darker look, this helped to further the idea of the dolls being evil and not innocent at all. For this doll we put dark lipstick and eye makeup on our actor, with a black dress with white collar and hair off of her face. This really helped to make the dolls as a pair seem really creepy yet totally distinctive as they have their own looks. We decided the best way for them to seem creepy was to keep their eyeliner dead on the camera, this way the audience feels like the dolls are almost looking at them.
We didn't want to just rely solely on the dolls appearance to make our production creepy however, we thought that to further this was to have the dolls doing classic doll like movements, when editing fern made these movements coordinate with the music really adding to the scary effect we wanted by building atmosphere and potentially making the audience jump. For example, we used close up shots of the dolls eyes closing when the music slows, yet opening fastly when the music speeds up and we also did different shots like the dolls waving at the camera etc - this made the audience feel as though the dolls had a sort of interaction with them.
Towards the end of our film opening we decided to include a slow pan shot of the dolls house, as it reaches the top of the house it slowly zooms towards a window into complete darkness, this will conclude with a screaming sound. This aspect will add mystery and keep the audience guessing as to what is in the dolls house, the use of the scream at the end will keep the audience frightened and help them to assume that whatever is in there isn't good. The fact that this whole clip was shot under very low lighting helps to add to this mystery, whilst also making it eery and creepy.
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