Planning Part Four: Location Scouting

Before my group began filming, we went out to look at our location to start filming our Thriller sequence, we had taken some photos with the camera we were going to film with so that we could look back at the images and decide as a group if this was the best choice to have as a location.

We had taken about 30 photos of the area but only used 13 of them as they were from different angels of the building and areas inside of it that we may want to use when we are filming as they had a thrilling look to them when in the right position.

 On these two pages there are 5 photos of the location using different shot sizes, the top two on the left were outside shots of the building, as it was a cold day when the photos were taken the photos look dark and this will most likely change when we go to film.
The third photo on the left is a shot from the inside of a hanging door and rope, we thought this looked quite scary so we took a photo of this, when the wind blows it door will swing in the wind giving it a creep affect, this would be good to capture in the film. The bottom left photo was something we found left in the building we thought this looked rather creepy so we wanted to try and incorporate this into our film. The top right photo was of a tree just around the corner from the location we wanted, we took a picture of this because we could use this as our location if the other one was inaccessible.

The top left photo was a picture of an electrical box left from the building, when we saw this we thought it looked kinda creepy and thought we could possibly use this for some shots. On the second left photo we saw a door with graffiti left on it, as there were quite a few '?' graffiti marks we thought we could possibly use this as a title and working it into the thriller. The two bottom left photos were shots of the field that surrounded it, with the frost on the ground we thought this looked good but knew we wouldn't be able to have this for our filming but from the fourth picture we thought we could use this as the opening scene where the title would appear and have this as something that would be done as a point of view type shot. On the two top right photos they were some pictures of some of the old pieces left over from the building, the top right photo of the wire hanging down could possibly be a health and safety risk so we would have to put that into consideration when we begin to film. The bottom two photos were some shots of two of the doors that had graffiti on it, from these pictures we thought we could possibly use one of the doors in our thriller for example having one of our actors look through the door.