Setting Inspiration - Usual Suspects

Setting Inspiration

We have many locations in our film. When deciding the locations, we looked at many other similar media texts to ours in order to create some inspiration for the settings in our film.

The confrontation scene we decided should take place in an office type setting. This was decided as we believe that it could be relatable for our audience and imply the feeling of similarity. On the other hand, we want to use this feeling of relatability to our advantage by making the environment a place involving danger and murder.

Looking at office setting in films that related to ours, we found the police office in the interrogation scene of the film The Usual Suspects. Although, in relation to the reason for the setting, the setting would be relatively different to what we will have, it give a lot of hints, especially to shots.

 

The desk is layed out with plenty of props that indicate a busy business man. The props such as the phone, indicate that they are important and are always contacted by other people. The high amount of papers and files on the desk are iconology that also imply that the desk belongs to a person who is related to business.

Although, the windows that surround the office is something that we would like to avoid because we think that although it shows the rest of the office environments, we would like the office location to be enclosed and closed off. We want this element because it means that the two characters are away from everything. It shows the contrast between the last environment in which they were together in the fight scene.

The difference in environments will show the contrast between the natural vulnerable side to the Employer that he once was and then after he was beaten he gained this power and re-created himself in a materialistic environment.

 

Although, there are a few too many props laid out on the desk in this scene so although we are taking inspiration from this setting we are considering not using as many. This is because we would like to illustrate that the Employer is in control. Having too many sheets of papers and such on his desk may indicate that he is overwhelmed with things to do. Because the revenge plot is so thought out, we would like to show that this is the Employer's main aim and is focused on this particular 'task'.