Religious Elements within Horror

We've decided to look at the idea of possession for our supernatural horror film opening. After looking at many different possession films and also after reviewing our survey we carried out with the public we noticed that religious elements within a possession film was quite conventional and also was something that the audience of our film would like to see. I focused on the idea of using a bible as there is many different ways we could use it within the film:

- thrown into a wall.

- pages flicking open on there own.

- blood written over the pages.

- pages missing stuck on the walls.

- particular words circled that would have a scary meaning.

- religious drawings on the pages.

I decided to try a few of these ideas and take pictures to see which ones I found the most effective that we could use in any idea we decide to go forward with, even if it is not possession we still want the idea of religion to be presented in some way within our opening.

 

This is a bible under top lighting, I think this was effective as it showed clearly what it was and also gave some interesting shadows as it contrasted the rest of the dark room.

 

This is the bible laying open, we could use this in our opening if it randomly flung open to a significant page or was thrown across the room and opened on a certain page and be shown in this way on the floor. 

 

I wrote across the pages of the bible the word "die" I used fake blood and I think it worked effectively, if we went with this approach we could think of lots of different words or drawings we could use instead to have a big impact upon the audience. 

Here I circled key words from the bible that stood out to me using the fake blood again, we could choose specific words that had relevance to our opening and have close up camera shots of the pages  to make it as effective as possible.

 

 

 

 

Here I ripped pages out from the bible and stuck them on a plain wall underlining and circling certain words and drawing pictures over the pages to make it look as though someone is trying to figure something out from them. I think this would be effective on the wall of one of our scenes in our opening to set the scene and also give it some sort of religious reference.