"T is for Tokophobia" is a short horror film I shot for the team behind "To My Mother and Father". The brief was very simple; use the Cinematography to disturb and unsettle the audience. We shot Super 16mm using Kodak 50D pushed 1 stop for extra contrast, saturation and grain. I wanted the images to feel a bit grungy, a bit like a grindhouse flick, but wanted to retain some sense of cleanliness in the walls. The location was tiled in pristine white tiles and we all felt that shooting in a bright environment in the middle of the day would add to the unsettling nature of the images. I used 2 x 2ft 4 tube kinoflos gelled with 1/4 plus green rigged as a toplight in the roof as a soft key and worked with the ambient daylight from the single bathroom window as a fill. Our primary visual approach was to never move the camera, keeping each shot as a lock off, deliberately using unconventional framing and cuts to again re-enforce the unsettling visual quality we were trying to achieve. Lenses were Zeiss superspeeds with no filtration, other then occasional ND, and we worked between a stop of T2 and T2.8 throughout the day.
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