Menacing Woods

[Kingham]

Hey there,

In a few months I will be filming a zombie movie in a woodland area and want to know how or what makes a woodland area look more menacing because when we visited the site a few days ago and took some photo's, video's of the area, they dont look very 'evil'.

Does anyone have any idea's of what makes a menacing wood?

Thanks

Kingham

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[deanl]

Hey there.

A good director always helps. You make it scary.

Your creating the horror.

Despin out.


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You call them morons. I call them friends.

[hairbrain]

film only at dawn or dusk... aside from that I'm forced, to my distaste, to agree with Despin.

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[eddie]

get some portable lights and film at night.
get a smoke machine. get some different woods.
film it with just the light from your main actors torch.
lots of close ups on faces.....

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[prycejones]

If you are looking for a Smoke Machine and are in the Rhyl, North Wales area - I was passing through there a few months ago and I spotted a shop at the top of Rhyl High Street that was selling them for ?50. If you are interested give me a bleep [email protected] and I will find out more for you.

Pryce



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[hairbrain]

Eddie... your mail looks like the script for Blair Witch?

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[Mods]

Hows about you use one of those woods where the trees are all in lines etc. Around here we've got loads of woods where there are thousands of trees all in lines, they were planted like that.

Also, use a dead wood or dark dense wood, rather than a sparse or plush wood/forest.


Mods

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Mark "Mods" Lovegrove
Anarchy Pictures

[sn-films]

Random thought... try playing around with the color. If you downplay the colors (a morbid medium between color and grayscale), it may make it look more sinister.

If it helps, please post. I'm curious as to whether or not that helps.

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[redlum]

I agree with Despin but to extend : I think the camera work would be the key. Without making a replica of Blair-Witch, that is. Maybe break the mould and use smooth shots on a dolly of some description, or perhaps tape the camera to a plank and do some floaty shots through the trees. Rather than resorting to "Shaky-Cam" (TM).

Redlum

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[Kingham]

Redlum

What do you mean? Shots with slightly out of focus tree's in and around the edge of the frame or shots from high up e.g using a crane.

Also,(everyone) as the movie will at one point have around 30 people in shot (the zombies), and we have got to have lots of filming days it is quite hard to film during the evening as the light changes so rapidly. Do you think that we could have an evil wood during the daytime or will we have to darked etc every shot taken during the day to look like night?

Thanks

Kingham

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If anyone needs me I'll be in my trailer!