Pre-Production: Defining the Setting

 Introduction

Hello my audience! Welcome to my blog again!! Today's topic is on defining the setting of our film.

The setting of a film is one of the most IMPORTANT parts of the film because it helps establish the world of your film, and it also gives your audience clarity on where this story takes place. It engages your audience. So for today's blog post, I will be showing how we defined the setting of our film! Enjoy!

Setting

Location (Where?)	Time Period (When)?	Landscape (Indoor/outdoor)	Tone		Social Economical Status, governing principles of the place and culture
The general setting of the world is at Piper High.	The film is set in the present.	This film mostly takes place inside Piper High school. But there will be some scenes that are off campus (i.e. Mercedes’ home)	Tense, Suspenseful, Unnerving		Middle Class, urban culture
Some Locations in our film are:  Christine’s House  On Piper High’s campus. This includes:  Outside the school’s buildings, in school hallways, the bathroom, and the cafeteria   A dark room in Christine’s home
Number of Locations	Location (Where?)	Landscape (Indoor/outdoor)	Time of Day	Tone	Lighting Source	Explanation
8	Christine’s room	Indoors	Daytime	Creepy	The lights in Christine’s bedroom	Christine is seen creepily waking up and looking at all the pictures she has taken of Mercedes. She is obsessed with her.
	On the way to school	Outdoors	Daytime	Awkward, unexpecting,	The Sun	Mercedes is seen walking to school, when suddenly she bumps into Christine and drops her class schedule. Christine introduces herself and exclaims “Wow, we have the same math class! Can’t wait to see you then.” Mercedes thinks it’s a weird thing to say but doesn’t think much of it.
	Media Studies Room	Indoors	Daytime	Intense, Shocking	Ceiling lights inside the room	The audience sees Christine drawing a picture of Mercedes while humming. You then hear banging coming from the closet, because that is where Mercedes’ traps Lizzy
	In School hallways	Indoors	Daytime	Unusual, abnormal	Lights inside the hallways	In the next few scenes, you can see Christine actively stalking Mercedes in random places. She keeps popping up wherever Mercedes is, and Mercedes has finally noticed this.
	Bathroom	Indoors	Daytime	Creepy	Lights inside the bathroom	In this scene, Mercedes’ and her best friend, Lizzy are chatting in the school bathroom. The audience gets to view Christine stalking Mercedes secretly. Christine says, “Who’s this?” to Mercedes, because she doesn’t know that Lizzy is her best friend, so she’s jealous.
	Cafeteria	Indoors	Daytime	Suspenseful	Lights in the school cafeteria	Mercedes is finally done with Christine stalking her everywhere. She finally confronts her, telling her “Leave me alone you creep! I don’t want to be your friend.” Christine does not take this confrontation very well.
	A dark room in Christine’s House	Indoors	Daytime	Tense	There’s very little light, so the lighting is very dim (it comes from her room’s lights)	After Mercedes’ confrontation, Christine is very irritated and upset. She rushes into this dark room in her house, covered in pictures of Mercedes. She takes a second to think about her next move before coming up with the “perfect” idea, mind controlling her.

Reflection

I did this section of our planning document, and I believe it was easier than I thought (once we figured out what our scenes would look like). It took a while because we had to come up with all the scenes first, but once we did that, it was a piece of cake. Now we have learned the importance of planning out the setting in our scenes, because it helps us visualize what our scenes SHOULD look like. Thanks for reading! P is signing off!