Though our final idea is not yet completed, it is very nearly there and we have many specific visions for our film in place. An extremely important part of any film is iconography. It subtly tells the audience how to feel about a particular character or place, and can also show what a character’s 
quirks are and what they may really me thinking on the inside.
One important piece of iconography in our short film will be the plug socket, which will be our very first shot. The first shot of any film can be vitally important, and we wanted ours to create instant enigmas for the audience and make them pay attention from the word go. When seeing a plug socket, people will instantly think of electricity and perhaps electrocution. There will most likely be no sound used during this shot and the pan that will follow, making the audience feel on edge and wonder whether the plug socket has not been used safely and perhaps fatally.
The shot of the plug socket will then drift to the wire connected to it, and through the use of steadycam, the camera will follow the wire until the audience is able to see a radio in the bath and a man’s leg on display. The audience should then assume correctly that the man is not and has been killed by electrocuting himself with the radio in the bath. Two very important pieces of iconography will be
used and highlighted here - the radio and the bath itself.
The radio is a very important piece of iconography as it is the cause of death for the person, and will stay in the minds of the audience throughout the short film. It is one of two controlling ideas, and is an important image. Our group has agreed that the radio needs to have a ‘used’ look, as if the character is a fan of radio and prefers its old-time feel to new techn
ology like IPods. This will also become clear as the radio will need the use of a plug, which shows that the radio is slightly old, as new ones are able to go into water.
The other controlling idea in our short film is the bath tub. This is the scene of the death and is another image that will stay in the minds of viewers throughout the film. We have decided that the bath, and the bathroom itself will very clinical, hopefully white with a very bare look to it. This will hopefully give the room a new-look feel, or perhaps show that a particular character is very clean and prefers everything tidy and in place. The look of the bath will hopefully create enigmas f
or the audience and make them wonder why the room has such a purgatory look.
Another important piece of iconography to be used in our film is the clock in the patient’s home. Our group came up with an idea that throughout the film, when the clock is in view it will tick backwards. Obviously, this will create enigmas for the audience, but we liked the idea that it shows the patient’s psyche and how fragile he is on the inside. The clock shows his mind steadily ticking away, without the knowledge of anyone else, and how much time he has before he completely cracks. We as a group think this could be a very startling image and one of the defining shots of our short film, the kind of image that people will remember and recognise the film by.
A slightly less important piece of iconography that we will use is a razor. Though thi
s will only be visible for brief moments in our film, we feel it gives a small insight into the mind of our protagonist. This will not be a conventional razor, but rather one similar to the one used in ‘Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street’ (Dir. Tim Burton, 2007). Because the razor will be vastly unusual to generic razors used and often seen in thriller films, we believe this will put the audience on edge. It will also give a brief view into the mind of the patient, and shows that he does not like generic, normal items and likes to be over-the-top and have significanc
e in his life. He despises being like everyone else and deep down likes going to a psychiatrist as it shows he is not conventionally ‘normal’. This will further show his frustration of finding out he does have problems and that no progress is being made in therapy, leading to his ‘act’.
Overall, iconography is going to be a very important part of our film and something that we must make sure we get right. If the correct iconography is used fittingly, then our film will have the precise look and feel and hopefully we will get the desired reaction from the audience that we are hoping for.
quirks are and what they may really me thinking on the inside.One important piece of iconography in our short film will be the plug socket, which will be our very first shot. The first shot of any film can be vitally important, and we wanted ours to create instant enigmas for the audience and make them pay attention from the word go. When seeing a plug socket, people will instantly think of electricity and perhaps electrocution. There will most likely be no sound used during this shot and the pan that will follow, making the audience feel on edge and wonder whether the plug socket has not been used safely and perhaps fatally.
The shot of the plug socket will then drift to the wire connected to it, and through the use of steadycam, the camera will follow the wire until the audience is able to see a radio in the bath and a man’s leg on display. The audience should then assume correctly that the man is not and has been killed by electrocuting himself with the radio in the bath. Two very important pieces of iconography will be
used and highlighted here - the radio and the bath itself.The radio is a very important piece of iconography as it is the cause of death for the person, and will stay in the minds of the audience throughout the short film. It is one of two controlling ideas, and is an important image. Our group has agreed that the radio needs to have a ‘used’ look, as if the character is a fan of radio and prefers its old-time feel to new techn
ology like IPods. This will also become clear as the radio will need the use of a plug, which shows that the radio is slightly old, as new ones are able to go into water.The other controlling idea in our short film is the bath tub. This is the scene of the death and is another image that will stay in the minds of viewers throughout the film. We have decided that the bath, and the bathroom itself will very clinical, hopefully white with a very bare look to it. This will hopefully give the room a new-look feel, or perhaps show that a particular character is very clean and prefers everything tidy and in place. The look of the bath will hopefully create enigmas f
or the audience and make them wonder why the room has such a purgatory look.Another important piece of iconography to be used in our film is the clock in the patient’s home. Our group came up with an idea that throughout the film, when the clock is in view it will tick backwards. Obviously, this will create enigmas for the audience, but we liked the idea that it shows the patient’s psyche and how fragile he is on the inside. The clock shows his mind steadily ticking away, without the knowledge of anyone else, and how much time he has before he completely cracks. We as a group think this could be a very startling image and one of the defining shots of our short film, the kind of image that people will remember and recognise the film by.
A slightly less important piece of iconography that we will use is a razor. Though thi
s will only be visible for brief moments in our film, we feel it gives a small insight into the mind of our protagonist. This will not be a conventional razor, but rather one similar to the one used in ‘Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street’ (Dir. Tim Burton, 2007). Because the razor will be vastly unusual to generic razors used and often seen in thriller films, we believe this will put the audience on edge. It will also give a brief view into the mind of the patient, and shows that he does not like generic, normal items and likes to be over-the-top and have significanc
e in his life. He despises being like everyone else and deep down likes going to a psychiatrist as it shows he is not conventionally ‘normal’. This will further show his frustration of finding out he does have problems and that no progress is being made in therapy, leading to his ‘act’.Overall, iconography is going to be a very important part of our film and something that we must make sure we get right. If the correct iconography is used fittingly, then our film will have the precise look and feel and hopefully we will get the desired reaction from the audience that we are hoping for.
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