Friday, 15 February 2013

Director Review for opening of Cabin in the Woods

Cabin in the woods
Drew Goddard says that the original idea for this film was that there would be no title sequence and the film would start with the view of a copy machine. There was a certainty however of having the title of ‘Cabin in the Woods’ appear during a conversation about baby proofing a house.  The director said, because the start of the film seems irrelevant, he was “delighted by the idea that the audience might think they walked into the wrong film”. Drew Goddard said this was kind of the idea, to trick the audience.   However, this became a concern when it was sent to the studio.  The production company found a way to keep the brake room scene and still make the audience aware they were in the correct film and there was the theme of horror in the film. This was where the blood scene came in.
Drew wanted a sense of history involved in the title sequence to suggest “other themes were at play” which is why the historic images were used in the blood scene.  The idea was to like sacrifice into the film, the director said he wanted it in a historical context and “feel bloody”.
A choice was made of when to cut from the blood scene to the break room scene based on the music used. The music used during the blood scene was described by the director to “build and swell” and the choice was made too cut to the break room scene when the music reached its crescendo. This would be a sudden stop.  Drew said this “sets the tone immediately “and shows the audience what type of film it is.
 
With the blood scene, the decision was made for CGI not to be used because it would seem slick.
Instead the choice was made for ink to be used to create the ‘blood’.  A trial and error technique was used with trying to get the correct consistency to make the ink look like blood when filming. Because the camera moves from one puddle to the next, the ink had to be easy to guide. The technique that was used was shooting chocolate into relief moulds that were made out of blue play doh. This way the blue could be keyed out and changed to red and they got the correct effect.
 



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