Set Building - Directing Role

In the studio set building project, I have taken on the role as director which is arguably the most important role, meaning there is a lot of responsibility on my part. My team and I have chosen a photograph called 'Basement' by Gregory Crewdson. We played on multiple ideas as to how we could approach this picture and after a while of throwing ideas back and fourth we managed to settle on the idea of going through the five stages of grief. After deciding this we asked our tutors for feedback on the idea and they came back saying that it had a lot of potential but needed improving in places. We took these comments on board and proceeded the brainstorm about the narrative of the film. Several group meeting took place and we have now settled on the idea of a brother and sister feud. The film is going to take place a few days after the siblings have just committed a crime. The sister is going to have a much more laid back type approach to the whole situation whereas the brother is going to be a lot more jittery and uptight. The film is going to revolve around the siblings playing a game of chess and with every move they make in the game, something alters slightly in their reality be it a change of clothes or a piece of furniture in the room. 

When thinking about the look of my film, I have taken into consideration a lot of things from the mood I want to portray to the message I want to send. I have looked at a lot of feature films and short films to get an idea of how I would like the set designers to dress the set. My main inspiration for the film is going to be of similar aesthetic to '10 Cloverfield Lane'. Visually this is an extremely close representation of what I want to convey in the look of this shoot. The film follows the style of a early 90's and the bunker in which the majority of the film is set in has a very dainty and intricate look about it so much so that it gives off a slightly unnerving vibe to the film as the set doesn't correspond with the genre of the film; I'd really like to deliver the same feeling of viewer uncertainty in our film. I have also given the set designers the 1975 Somebody Else music video to look at. I like the look of this set in particular because there isn't actually a lot in the frame but because of the low lighting, it makes the apartment look quite grungy and run down which is the look I'd like in the shoot. I also feel like showing this same clip to the sound department of the shoot as this short is very reliant on audio seeing as there is no camera movement throughout the whole thing.