Evocation, Atmosphere, Place, Experimentation
I thought a lot about Atmosphere and Place when shooting Worst Day Ever. I felt that if I wanted to keep the audience captivated in some of the quite easily boring events I needed to find a way to engulf them into Lee’s world. After looking at the Research material from the lecture about “La Jetee” and “Super Mario”. This helped reinforce my view that music and the soundtrack is extremely important when making film. My technician at college used to tell me that the soundtrack is just as, if not more then important then the visuals.
So something as simple as a choice of song could totally change the mood of your piece. You can take something innocent looking and turn it creepy and evil or take something happy and make it sad.
Like in this video if you try and imagine the video with a comical tune instead the fear factor would be lost.
