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Monday, 12 December 2016

Coursework Inspiration - Stigmata

Stigmata

Due to our choice of genre and theme, we decided it would be helpful to watch the film stigmata for inspiration. Made in 1999 and directed by Rupert Wainwright, the film is about an atheist inflicted with stigmata after coming into contact with a rosary owned by a deceased priest who experience the phenomenon himself. As a group, we thoroughly enjoyed this film and thought it was really cleverly made in ways such as editing and sound. 


Here is a personal favourite scene for inspiration from others in my group:

What we found really effective was the editing during her experience of the stigmata. The constant cuts in the scene away from the present into another scene to create montage editing was extremely impressive. We are seriously considering using this sort of idea in our opening scene. This is because it assisted the viewer in understanding what was happening to Frankie (the victim) as well as create a fearful effect and strong spine-chilling atmosphere. 


We also really liked the muffled and broken up sound used to assist the effect the montage editing creates. The repeated screams and off-screen diegetic noise of the nails and hammer, along with the low and barely visible lighting, helps devise trepidation among the viewer as it is constructing how fearful the actual experience is for the victim. It assists the viewer to get into the head of the victim and understand and empathise with what is occurring to her, creating a relationship with the victim which will overall result in a bigger impact on the viewer.



As you can see from the clip above, the opening is mainly based on religion which is a strong factor that we want to incorporate. The focus of the camera framing on religious concepts, such as the crucifix and the cross help to really emphasise the main factor behind the film and the stigmata itself. The lack of speech in the opening is a concept that we would like to follow as the mese en scene will hopefully be powerful enough, like in this sequence.

Here is my personal favourite scene from the film:


-Caera Mendez

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