Location Decisions

When we had decided on doing a film about a fancy dress party to increase the uneasiness of the thriller, we knew we had to use a house to film in, which obviously raises a lot of complications. Initially we planned to film at a mutual friend of the groups house. Reason for this was that he had a pool and while we were planning a film we thought re-winding someone falling into a pool would be a brilliant shot and ultimately it would be original compared to shots that other groups have made. However because we needed extras to make the party look authentic, and our friend lives far away, we had to change location. Jake, a member of the group has the most conveniently positioned house which turned out to be the biggest house out of the group anyway ended up being our set. Here were the photos that were took when we looked for shots based on our drawings of the narrative.

The first idea for the second narrative, was a boy being sick, so naturally we began taking shots of the bathroom. Because the first time our protagonist is seen, is while he is being sick we thought a side angle shot of him dropping to his knees, then throwing up would be a good way to surprise audiences and also show enough of Jake's face to establish who he is, the shot fits everything we needed in.

This is where we planned for a tracking shot to come out of those to doors at the far back, it's a good shot to show the smokers sitting in the back, and establish more groups that our loner protagonist isn't friends with.

This is a shot of the alley by the side of the house, originally we wanted someone to be followed down it, however after the wall ends on the left it didn't really look right considering the shot types we wanted to use it, and then another member of the group suggested we put some extras on the wall to the left.

This was actually one of the shots we were determined to use, because of the angle of the shot and the way the curved wall makes the shot look like, it would add quite a sinister feel especially if the killer was standing in the far right while the Boy leaned against the wall.

At this point we had already decided the Boy's body would be around where the camera is now, where the two people are standing on top of the hill, would be where possible the killer is standing the home owner considering it's a place where the most powerful character would stand.

This is a shot taken from where the two boys were standing in the previous photo, as you can see there are three levels of paths and on the bottom one we wanted to have the body. the reason for this being that the party goers can be on different levels when they gather round the body.