The idea

I had little to no input in getting the idea at the start as I was ill for the first few sessions and then did not make myself heard during the creative process. If I could do it again I would have been a lot more vocal and given a lot more input into the creative side of this project because I feel I missed out on this element of the module.

The idea is for the protagonist to float out of his bed and then look to a book shelf, he knocks off a tiny version of himself from the shelf that is crushed under a big book. He then looks through the keyhole of his door and can see a strange figure in the corridor coming towards him and the walls are bleeding in the corridor. To make these things possible we have used the following techniques.

Floating off the bed: We shot this vertically and had the protagonist come forward from the bed using a camera track

Book bleeding: We put a syringe full of fake blood just out of shot and then fed a small clear plastic tube through the book so that once the camera was rolling we could squeeze out the fake blood and make it appear as if the book was bleeding.

Keyhole: We actually had a door attached to the set so we used it for the keyhole.

Corridor: We set up a wall four boards long and drilled holes into it to poke the syringes through and faced the wall at the green screen so somebody could be layered in later on. We set up the lighting to make the corridor look moody and interesting then started rolling. We then cued eight people behind the wall to start squeezing out the fake blood so it appeared that the wall was bleeding.