Locations

We're now starting to develop a fuller storyboard and establish filming plans so I've spent the last week contacting my friend who is studying performing arts at another college and I knew would be happy to feature as the protagonist in our trailer to begin to organise times to film.

As well as this I've been looking around some potential locations to film the main bulk of our trailer which is the protagonist being chased. We think that a combination of both urban gritty locations and rural settings would create a variety of interesting shots, and present the idea of missing persons cases spanning all areas and settings across the nation. Urban settings can carry connotations of gritty, hard and harsh environments, whereas a rural setting can symbolise a quiet, lonely and mysterious environment, both extremes of which would be appropriate to present an eerie, creepy and appropriate setting for our action/thriller chase. We have already decided on some appropriate locations we'd like to feature in our trailer:
An alleyway- urban alleyways are commonly featured for 'stalkings' as they're dark, mysterious and carry the appropriate connotations.
A wood- Similarly this location is eerie and mysterious creating the desired atmosphere for the thriller elements of the trailer and adding variation to the other urban settings such as the alleyway.

I've been looking around various potential locations in the local area and having looked at the photographs I took we've selected the most appropriate location. There was both wooded, rural areas and built up urban alleyways and other appropriate places within quite a small vicinity. Which will hopefully cut down the filming time, as we need to film it all at twilight to have it dark enough to look effective, but light enough to have a clear and quality image. Without having to waste time travelling between locations, I'm optimistic we can achieve this.

These are the photos I took when scouting out locations. As this seemed to be the most promising I went back in the semi-darkness we have decided to film in to create a more appropriate and scary ambience, and took a second set of photos to ensure the locations would be appropriate in the darkness and they have come out very well, so we've settled on this area to film this main part of our trailer.











This wooded area was the most appropriate as it had both dense wood and more spread out mature trees which were both easily accessible at the edge of the wood. The dense woodland seemed the best option to create an eerie filming location but from my dark photo, the more spread out trees seem more suitable as the limited light means the dense wooded are would be much too dark to capture a quality image. So we've chosen this less dense woodland as a filming location











This location offered both the urban alley we had planned to feature but also this wooded alleyway which will add variation to the shots, as well as offering another appropriately creepy and eerie location to build the dark, mysterious tone we are hoping to achieve for parts of our trailer.













This more gritty and urban looking alleyway with broken fencing and mismatched panels is appropriate in presenting connotations of a harsh and hard environment as well as the obvious connotations an alleyway can present that are eerie and creepy, which is the effect we'd like to create with this shot.











Now that the main practical components are organised, we're free to seriously begin to plan filming and also to think about creating a poster and magazine image using the same girl, to create a strong sense of continuity, which is vital in advertising campaigns to achieve a recognisable brand identity.