The Basement

Initially, the basement scene was meant to be filmed in Aya's living room; since no one in the group had a basement, we planned on achieving a basement setting by covering the windows with black card, using a low voltage light to create a dim atmosphere. Fortunately, Serhan Velettin got permission from his cousin who owns a travel agent (Jet travel) which has a basement, it was agreed that the setting was really suitable for the scene which we were shooting and we decided to use it, it really gives it a realistic atmosphere: the size of the room, the untidy look of the room (boxes, fans, unneeded materials and many more objects which is contained in a basement). The kind of props used to create this realistic atmosphere is the following:

Props/ Reasons of use :

- The room's untidy look is to emphasise that the room has unneeded things, and is a room just for pointless and unneeded things i.e. planks of wood, broken bicycles. Keeping the male character, Serhan, in there, strapped onto a small chair with brown tape shows his value towards the female character, Aslihan. The crowded room gives a claustrophobic feel, where it would be hard to move around. This emphasises on the "one-on-one" feel of the characters, and the idea that Serhan cannot escape from Aslihan .

- Using the light stand as the only source of light also emphasises on the narrow atmosphere. Facing the light onto Serhan is to cause him stress and discomfort, that he is "highlighted" and is needed to achieve the female's goal - revenge. The light also creates shadows, the film noir effect because of the low-key lighting. This allows a sinister feel lingering and floating in the atmosphere, however, it is still mysterious about who is the "good" or "evil" character...

-The costumes of the characters do not explicitly show the difference of the characters' persona, i.e. white represents good, black represents evil. Both the characters are wearing black however, Aslihan is wearing a tight black dress to show the femininity of the character, and the softness, the high heels again emphasises on these points as well. Serhan is wearing a black suit (both characters are wearing professional-like clothing) this clothing is meant to show his power over his occupation, and the conflict of this image, his powerlessness with the female before her.

- The make-up used on Serhan was meant to seem as if he had been hurt deliberately to get him to the basement. We did not use special make-up, we used a combination of daily make-up: eyeshadow, eye liner, lipstick/gloss and we got the effect we had wished to by smudging certain parts of the applied make-up.
Whether someone else hurt Serhan for Aslihan, or Aslihan had hurt him herself is not clear, but it is clear that everything has been planned and expected; that she has a plan and reasons to what she is doing.

- Other props were used by improvising on the day of the filming. Since we had not seen the props before other than the day of the shooting, we had only agreed on the setting by images that Serhan had taken from his mobile phone. We took a closer look at the props on the day and removed objects which could be obstacles when filming, such as bricks lying around on the floor. During filming we noticed that there was a small cabinet with small glass doors, there is a reflection of Aslihan's hand where she is holding a small picture; we thought the shot was good and decided to keep it in the final piece.