Atmos-fear
The Cliché: A layer of fog, a storm with strong winds and rain or a deafening quiet help set the mood.
Appears In: The Mist (2007)
How To Recreate It: Fog is easy. Head down to your local council estate and find the family that smokes the most.
This is easy to spot, there will be a 26 year-old great grandma on the porch splitting a Lambert & Butler with a one year-old.
Now ask all 14 occupants of the one bedroom terrace to spark up and chain smoke a deck each.
In no time you’ll have a cloudy, blue-tinted hue that envelops the room like a light fog, giving atmosphere without being too thick to film in.
Now roll cameras, and cough your way to box-office gold.
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Comments
CatSchrodinger
Sep 3rd 2009, 17:39
'beg, borrow and still' - as in, like, a moonshining still? C'mon TF!
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dgoodswen
Sep 4th 2009, 10:09
thanks for pointing that out... guess we should have stayed in school instead of that whole Thai circus thing...
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callumoakabywright
Sep 7th 2009, 21:27
shouldnt you mention the soundtrack? a lot of horror films are only scary because of the subtle background theme music, maybe you should add that
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