I'm Megan do you want to hang out with me? Megan is both smart and stupid scary but
funny Innovative yet original surprising and at the same time predictable it manages to balance
opposite sides of the spectrum perfectly and the way they did this was actually pretty clever but
the reason for doing this it was actually even more so oh really the movie Megan is
designed to be unnerving throughout the entire movie it constantly makes the audience feel
that something isn't quite right and achieves this by using a variety of clever techniques
something you probably didn't notice whilst watching the film is that the type of furniture
and color palette chosen for gemma's house are predominantly masculine the furniture
textiles and lighting are cold and somber and give the house more of a feel of a bachelor's
pad rather than a warm and pretty atmosphere you'd expect in a more feminine household this
gave the viewer a feeling of contradict addiction that this residence wasn't actually a comforting
place and it was a generic house rather than a family home the high-tech Toy Factory was also
designed to be contradictory by combining the looks of toy factory and science lab the room
where KD first meets Megan was made to look colorful childlike and happy but the wool's
furniture ceiling and lighting were designed to be sterile ordered and minimalistic this makes
for a scene that on the face of it should be endearing but instead feels somewhat
unsettling this intentional discordance continued with the actual Megan doll itself
to achieve the illusion that Megan was a real Android they used three different methods for long
shots where Megan had to move quickly or broadly they used a child actor in a mask when these shots
also had a close-up of Megan's face they used the same method but the mask was replaced with
a digital version of the Megan doll's face for all the other shots animatronic puppets were used
for the movie Moto effects Studios built various animatronic puppets and as you can
see from their work on the babies for the 2017 film mother they could have easily
made the Megan doll to be hyper realistic however the filmmakers wanted the Megan
doll to be just on the edge of reality in a place that the industry calls uncanny valley
the term uncanny valley originally comes from a paper written by Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori
where he Maps out on a graph how we can feel an affinity for humans and we can feel an affinity
for something that's not human but as it becomes more and more human-like there's a drop-off point
where we begin to feel repulsion this fall and rise in the graph is known as uncanny valley
films like Final Fantasy and the Polar Express are Infamous for having accidentally fallen into
uncanny valley but Megan did so on purpose another subtle discordance they achieved although this one
may not have been intentional arose from the different methods used for the Megan doll as
you may have noticed earlier the actor in a mask the animatronic puppet and the visual effects are
all just slightly different it's insane right this inconsistency adds to Megan's unsettling
appearance but it wasn't Megan's looks alone that were inconsistent the way she moved also varied in
some scenes it was clearly robotic in others it was elegant and human-like other times it
was wild and bestial and others completely alien the variety of movement gave Megan
an unpredictability that left the audience never quite knowing what to expect foreign
design is an extremely important component of any movie but perhaps even more so within the
horror genre Megan used sound design to increase the tension of a scene like here in the forest
scene where the sudden silence brings a sense of impending doom and the introduction of low
rumbling bass adds Menace then later they used it to reinforce an action or motion to give the
impression of something powerful charging up and later when Megan runs on all fours to give
her motion a more aggressive Bastille feeling Megan also used clever sound design to trigger
our imagination in this scene the clever use of sound meant that the viewer could imagine
what would happen next without them ever having to show it on screen if we replay the last part
and listen closely all it took was a crunch an orchestra hit a deep bass drum and a dog's
whimper to trigger our imagination the clever reason for doing everything we've discussed
in this video was to open the movie Megan up to a wider audience by getting a PG-13 rating
by making the Megan doll look how she did they made the viewer instantly distrust her before
she even opened her mouth by making her movements inconsistent they made the audience wary of her
capabilities by creating contradicting sets and scenery they put the viewer subconsciously on edge
with clever sound design they built up tension and stimulated the viewer's imagination and by
introducing humor they got the viewer to release some of that tension but still be acutely aware
that something ominous was coming by using all of these techniques not only did the filmmakers
manage to scare us with a pretty decent horror movie but they managed to do so without the
need for extreme blood and gore excessive swear words or gratuitous violence good job turn off
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