As a group we decided on what roles we would most like to do, there was director, camera operator, editor and art director. The director is Tom, editor is Olly and Lola is the camera operator.
I put myself forward for art director as I thought it would give me a challenge but also be something that I would enjoy, we all decided that these would just be our main roles but we would do little bits of everything so we could put into practise the workshops and lessons we've been doing leading up to this.
As an Art director you are in charge of how the sequence looks visually. My main responsibility is the set, as we are filming on location in the woods - signs and symbols are a very important part of our piece, I need to lay out the size, colour and position of them. Because our sequence is simple and the majority of it is a man walking down a path, it needs to be ensured that it will look interesting, this can work with props, costume, colour palettes and these can all be incorporated within the horror theme and genre.
We've ordered fake blood (and a new jumper for our actor incase it gets bloody) along with spray paint and we are going to collect rocks and twigs - we have also managed to get a pig head and leftover intestines and livers for our sequence to put on a stick and are buying a dress we can rip up to make it look like a massacred body. I will lay all of these out to make it look the most scary it can be.
Thinking holistically is a significant part in art directing, this can be challenging because we have so many little props but thinking about the sequence as a whole is something I will have to keep in mind, the thing I'll try to do is to spread it out through the whole sequence as most the action is at the very end and this will be essential to keep the audience involved
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