Setting 2

Conventional themes of Settings

Settings 1

These images are all taken from my school. The school is large and I find that the neatness and white walls with long, repetitive corridors could be comparable to that of a hospital or asylum. The place itself holds a lot of symmetry and blank, light walls with space to shoot at.

The first image is of a stairway, this shows what perfect symmetry can be created here with the empty and open stairways that are good for a running/following scene.

I have edited each image in a way to make them more appealing and relevant to this genre. The first image has a higher contrast. This can make the whites of the walls stand out which can make it seem more sterile, more like a hospital/asylum. The high contrast also makes the shadows stand out more which can make it feel more eerie and mysterious.

The high angle makes the stairs look even longer, like it would be more of a struggle to climb.

The second image shows the use of framing. It shows the use of one of the corridors whilst we use the framing of the window. This makes us feel like an outsider looking in and again, uses symmetry to make things eerily neat and sterile.

The next two images again show the hallways that seem almost endless and white but also how colour can create an emotional response when they are paired.

The first one shows warmer colours, oranges and browns that make us feel more warm and comforted. The second uses more blues which feels so much colder and makes the white stand out even more. This can increase the sterile feel and unsettling chill from the blank, emotionless, bare colours.

The next image shows the hallways again but how shadows can be used for effect too. The colours are warmer but this helps us to notice the difference in darkness. The hallway seems to gradient until the walls are dark and we see silhouettes. This can be used for a mysterious effect especially as you can not see people's expressions which seems to dehumanise them.

The next shows some of the colour of the place itself. The grey/black walls that seem bare and prison like and the trees are eerily white and thin, bare which we associate with winter, coldness, abandonment and death.

The next pair show the use of lines in the work. It can give a sense of being trapped, again of prison but also of a lack of escape, separation from the outside world and being like no more than a caged animal. Looking from the inside out and not being able to change that.

The next show how saturation can effect it. The second of the two images is more vibrant in colour, this seems to add more of a warning from the sign but is less dark and frightening than the first which seems colder and more moody and grim.

The location also has an abundance of signs. Ones about no exits, off limits and where the exits are for people to leave.

The next picture shows a door with no sign, this itself adds mystery of what might be in that room and gives us an opportunity to use it for our own purposes.

The following then shows another long hallway but this one is a dead end, this again leads to the feeling of no escape and if being chased, being inevitably caught.

The final three show some broader shots of the place. Empty classrooms for us to use and the emptiness is spook as it can seem abandoned. The building itself is large and grey and almost prison like whilst there are dark colours used throughout and still the ability for highschool elements that we see can easily be shot from above.