Locations

My partner and I have been giving the locations of the film a lot of thought and have come up with many different areas to film in order to create the effect we are looking for. The places we had come up with are:

• House/Garage
• Woodland areas
• Woods
• Forests
• Fields
• Old buildings
• Run down area
• Out on the streets
• Public place
• High street
• School
• Work
• Park

We had chose a house/garage for an option as we felt that it had many conventions attached to it that we could explore in our trailer and it also creates a believable effect to the film as being at home in a house gives the audience and unsettled feeling with the events happening in a place that you're meant to feel comfort and security.

Another option was in an open space outside, somewhere like open fields or woodland space also creating the thriller or horror effect on the viewer with it being in a dark place usually associated with being alone and lost. 

We thought that maybe filming in an old abandoned building/area would create the sense of a paranormal aspect from the area being old and corrupt, this would also allow the audience to make the connection between the setting and storyline of the trailer enough to link the two together. Also making the effect of the setting stronger.

From using the setting of a run down area it would create the effect of being alone and being deserted helping the scared feeling get across to the audience. This would also help the suspension build in the trailer causing the climax of the story line shown, making the audience want to see the film to see what happens and why they are there. 

If we chose a scene to be set out on the streets we would probably film it at night as then the genre of the trailer would come across easier than if we had filmed it in the day time, although doing this would challenge the typical conventions of a horror film confusing the audience between the genres.   

With the trailer being filmed in a public place it would help with the impact of the events in the trailer also helping build suspense. Being in public would make the audience loose track of the real conventions of a horror films although aspects of these have been shown in previous released horror films. Choosing somewhere like a high street would allow the viewer to make the connection between the events happening and them happening in a place surrounded with people building suspense more effectively then if this was to happen on a normal road. Being filmed at a school would change the whole perception of the film with it involving teenagers bringing the sense of immaturity to the storyline. This perception of the school also slightly links to the concept of the trailer if it had involved young children in it. 

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