Location

After discussing various locations, we decided on a workshop/warehouse that was easily accessible for us to use and that we could use whenever we needed it. We did think of alternative locations such as the woods or a dark alley, so that a sense of something dark and mysterious would be created.

Here are a few pictures of our location, I think our location is effective as it is isolated, dark, the door being seen from the window helps to give a sense of someone being watched or being easily able to get inside, the fact the stairs look as if they lead to no where makes it seem mysterious and eerie as you don't know what to expect in the office. But the office is effective as it looks ordinary which makes what goes on in there even more suspicious and strange.

Pre Production Meeting Two

In our groups second meeting, we began to think about locations, from our pitch we decided we wanted either a creepy, abandoned house or warehouse or a dark forest. From our first meeting and our new idea, it would be best to find a house or warehouse for our opening sequence, we decided on a workshop as it was accessible for our group but was also dark with empty rooms where we could create a scene that would fit our genre. 

As well as location, we thought about props, as a book is the basis of our idea we needed to find and order or make our own book. The props we thought of fit the horror theme but also with the ideas that will fit into the book, such as the child like toys which can be presented to look scary in a dark and mysterious situation, this is why we thought they would be effective.

We also began to think about sound effects as we could begin to produce some of our own while we were at our filming location, the sound effects link to the props and also to the location, as the warehouse is empty and sound effects should help to heighten the fear within the opening sequence. 

In our third meeting, we will start to determine scenes to break down our filming to make it more manageable and easier to begin when we get to our location.