The scene begins with a close up shot of a lit candle in front of an old, stone pillar which gets blown out after a few seconds. We wanted to start the opening with this because we thought it looked slightly creepy, which suited the genre of film that we chose. We filmed this part at dusk, as we wanted as little natural light as possible, so that the candle was the main source of light in the shot.
The scene then changes to an establishing shot of an old house and a girl walking down the steps holding a candle. We also filmed this at dusk, so that the candle would stand out and light up the girl’s face as she walked with it. We filmed this from behind a bush, to give the impression to the audience that someone is watching her.
The shot then moves to a close up of the girl, as she blows out the candle.
The screen then fades to black and the title ‘Recurrence’ comes up in white letters. I think the first scene displays a lot of mystery that will intrigue the audience to keep watching.
The opening then fades into present day, showing a mother and her teenage daughter having an argument. The teenager storms out of the room and the camera moves to the other side of the door to watch her slam the door and continue to storm upstairs, into her bedroom and start to pack her things. We originally filmed every shot so that it followed on into the next, but came out with 5 and a half minutes of film, so realised that we had to cut it down. We used fade in/fade out transitions to merge shots into one another, in order to show the passing of time.
This allowed us to get the overall time down to around 2 minutes. We shortened a lot of the shots that showed the teenage girl packing her things and leaving her house, as we felt that the scene was too long, uninteresting to watch and unnecessary to the storyline.
The sequence of shots which follow the girl as she goes to her dad's house and down the long driveway include a wide variety of angles. We used a panning shot to show her walking past the camera as she enters the gates at the top of the driveway and a tracking shot from the front because we wanted to show her emotion of feeling fed up and tired. We then included a hand-held shot of her feet and the suitcase going past the camera. We thought this was an effective way of showing her journey to her dad’s house because the scene then leads on to a shot where the camera is close up to the suitcase and then tilts upwards as she walks away from the camera to reveal the house. The camera is then at a low angle to show her as she pulls the suitcase up the steps.
We thought this sequence of shots really showed how tired and fed up she was. We wanted to portray her struggle as she pulls her suitcase along the long, stone driveway.
We think this particular shot really shows how much she is struggling, because it shows her trying to pull the suitcase up the steps, one by one.
Inside the house, many different and interesting camera angles are used in order for the audience to get a feel for the layout of the house. We also wanted to use some angles to make it look like someone is watching her.
The scene begins with a close up of her putting the key in the door, which we thought was effective as it then slightly tilts upwards as she walks in. We also thought this shot would be a good place to put one of the titles and when editing, we decided on putting ‘Director of Photography – Rebecca Atkinson’ in that place.
A mid-shot is used while the camera tilts downwards as she puts her things on the floor and then tilts upwards as she closes the door. We wanted the audience to see what she was doing, therefore used the tilt to show that.
We then used a slow zoom into a close up of her face to show the real emotion in her face, so that the audience could understand how she is feeling.
The camera angle then changes to a hand-held pan of her feet stepping over her bag and walking away.
After a mid-shot and slow pan of her walking into the room as you hear the diegetic sound of her calling out for her dad, the camera angle changes to an aerial shot from the top floor of the house, looking over the bannister at her, as she turns around. We used this shot because we all agreed that it looked like someone was watching her. We wanted to make the audience to
As we wanted to create this feeling for the audience, we continued to use shots that would do this, for example; we then used a tracking shot as she walks through one of the rooms and up to the stained glass doors, opening them and walking out. The tracking shot makes it look like someone is following her.
We think this shot is very effective because the natural light which comes through the stained glass doors brightens up and outlines the figure of the teenage girl.
As the film is called ‘Recurrence’, and the girl at the beginning was filmed from behind a bush as she walked down the steps, we wanted to show the audience that something happened to her, and that it was going to happen to the girl in the present tense. We did this by filming the girl in the present tense from the same position as before, as she walked down the same steps.
We think that the combination of shots and music that we used did make the audience feel that someone was watching the girl and that something bad was going to happen to her.
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