by Charles » Mon Aug 18, 2014 2:44 pm
By blur, I mean the project image, all of the visual dividers, the image placeholders fro all of the videos (which I haven't even watched - as none of them visually tempt me to click on them), and all of the concept art images.
As far as my Hitchcock quip is concerned, Hitchcock was a true master of the suspense in film format. He wasn't a master of gore. Hell, he didn't need it. Your fire dilemma strikes me as a concern about special effects for fire. Obviously, you don't want to actually burn the cast alive.
You've already announced that there will be a fire sequence at the climax of the film. So much for suspense, huh?
Obviously, I have no idea about the specifics of what you have in mind. But, I do know that suspense works very well for horror films - if they bother to include it, when they make them.
In horror, what you don't see can have a strong of an impact as what you do see. Fire is fire. You can show flames. Obviously, you want them to look realistic, rather than cheesy (unless you're making a cheesy film, intentionally, to begin with). But, the horror doesn't emanate from the fire, but from the experience.
Fire burns quickly. The experience of being burned alive doesn't have to, though, if that's what you have in mind. Smoke indicates fire. Smoke obscures, even fire, itself. What you can't see behind that fire, that you know is there, requires you to turn to your imagination to fill in the gaps.
Even copious amounts of fire makes for a poor substitute for good acting.