Ellie, Joe, Beth and Beth

Due to where all members of our group live, we have decided to film around Taverham and Thorpe Marriott, therefore making filming flexible and practical.

We went on a location scout and returned with 50 photos of locations which could potentially be used in filming. We proceeded to discuss, rule out and select different locations. The following presentations will show some of the locations we found.

General Locations

Our first scene will introduce the Detective, The Girl and The Shade. We want them to be introduced in an urban area to show that fear and paranormal can happen on ‘any street’ which gives this scene a terrifying affect. We also chose to film in urban streets from the inspirations similar to Gotham City in Batman films. Due to the street lights, this gives an eery dark atmosphere.

We have taken images from both day and night and are hoping to film during both day and night. We are going to do this so that we can see if we are able to film during the night or if we have to film at dusk and alter the brightness during the editing process. At night time, the shots would work perfectly with the mysterious street lights, which is a common piece of thriller iconography.

First Sequence Locations –Urban Road

These two shots will include the Detective running, ultimately approaching The Shade standing at the end. He will then have a flashback and turn to run away. This is a ‘possible’ shot, depending on time restrictions. However it will definitely be filmed. We believe that this is a good location due to narrow to narrowness of the path itself and also the high fences. This can make it seem very threatening which is of course a common theme within thrillers.

Alleyway

We are hoping to include two shots of this track. It is situated at the bottom of a field (known as ‘The Green’) and is Marriotts Way. During these shots we would again have encounters with the Shade and flashbacks. The Detectives would run through this track, featuring several point of view shots while running.The claustrophobic scene of the woods towering over will create a brilliantly terrifying effect. This is similar to the ‘release’ scene in The Cabin In The Woods, which uses claustrophobic spaces to create a sense of terror. This location also creates an isolated effect and disorientates the audience.

Woods

In the images we can see a different forested area of Taverham. Despite the change in location we can still use this as the audience will be unaware of the location change so long as the transitions are smooth and there are no continuity errors. We really liked the junction type shots. WE imagine that we could use this and have The Shade on one side, and therefore force the Detective down the other route. I believe that this is still a possible scene as on one side of the route you can see a house, therefore there is a suburban housing estate on that side. On the other side, there is wooded area. Joe did not like this idea, however in The Strangers which is a popular thriller movie, on one side of the house there is a housing estate and on the other is a dark wooded area.

Possibilities

We plan to film the final scene in an open area, such as a field or The Green. After running for some time the Detective will eventually emerge into an open area where he will be surrounded and enclosed by The Shade. If the weather is overcast and it’s dark it will crate a very eeryatmosphere but of course this a an extremely unreliable way of filming. Therefore we are going to film to a schedule and edit the brightness of the scene during the editing process.

Open Area – Final Scene

This map shows the distance between each location we have found. It must be remembered that we may not be filming at every single location we have found.

Map

One location which is not on the map yet will be used is an abandoned Mental Asylum in Thorpe St Andrews.

The shots of this asylum will be used to create the flashback scenes so all angles of the building will be needed.

Despite the remote location, I am willing to go and obtain these shots. On the left are a few shots I took with a still camera. An inspiration for these shots is from the film Shutter Island which features a creepy Insane Asylum.

Other Locations