Project 3 Concept & Mood

1. The reason I chose The Signalman was for the simple fact that I love spooky stories despite the fact that some of them scare me. This one was pretty creepy as one, I read it in the dark and two, i would actually pause for a second and try to 'see' what the signalman saw and told the narrator. It's pretty crazy how many pictures my brain came up with in just a few seconds about a simple but supposedly haunted tunnel...I mean what's scarier than that? I want to make it a dreary, cold looking and desolate place overgrown with vegetation adjacent to the tunnel. That to me and hopefully to my audience a foreboding and neglected place. The only sign of anything alive being the the narrator and what has reclaimed the area.

2. I want to create a sort of hair-raising, yet mysterious scene. People are afraid of the unknown and that is exactly what the narrator is experiencing in hearing the tales of the signalman. I mean, it's one thing to see something you can't explain, but to also hear it, whatever it is calling to you is an entirely different animal. That is always something that i'd imagine as unnerving and though I can only convey a visual piece, I can in fact try to express a feeling of dread or something, oh what's the word, sinister perhaps?

3.I want to use cool colors like blues, dark greens and grays to express that feeling of desolation and cold. the only warm colors I feel I should use are red and yellows. Hopefully, you'll understand why when you see it. the tunnel shape it pretty basic as a horseshoe shape on a rectangle or square will do just fine. lighting will be VERY dim as if the dark is swallowing it. I just hope it works.