Creating the Dark Room...

With one of our scenes being in a park, there was no work for us to do in order to sort out the setting. However, the dark room scene required alot of preparation to create the scene. Straight away we decided on using my kitchen as the room, as it had a sink, aswell as counter space which we believed would be useful. We borrowed a large roll of black material to cover the windows and doors in the room, to block out any natural light or reflections off glass that may show the reflection of the camera. We also bought red light bulbs to light the room, and placed lamps in corners of the room which we didnt plan on filming to light the entire room. Following this, we had to completely clear the kitchen shelves and counters of all the appliances and other stuff that was on them, eg. bread bin, biscuit tin, kitchen roll, photographs etc... Then we put other things in place to make the room into a stalkers lair. This involved putting packets and pots of paracetemal and vitamins on the shelves, to make it look like Stalk was taking numerous amounts of drugs. we also borrowed trays from school and filled them with water, placing them on the counters in the dark room. Finally, we attached a line of string on either side of the room and hung paper from it on pegs, to look like Stalks pictures drying out.