Location
For our location, we filmed in various places such as school, chosen hill, an abandoned building in the quays. other wreckage around the area of gloucester quays. Even though we didn't use all these locations in our trailer, we still explored and experimented the locations in some shots to see if it would fit in with the genre of our film.
For our first location we used an abandoned secondary school. We thought that following the theory of Wesley Craven. That bad things happen is safe places. Using the school was a perfect locations as it created that sense of fear and was so many different rooms to explore and experiment different shots. We used the outside and the inside of the school. After uploading all the footage we had filmed we decided that it wasn't the location for us as it didn't give use a fearful reaction.
For our second location we decided to explore more of an outdoor theme. Allowing a murder that can be seen, instead of following the paranormal theme. We went up chosen hill, where we filmed in varies parts of the hill. One part including a cattle shed. We thought this was a good creepy shed to use for a killing. As it was old and falling apart. We had the idead of the victim being chased into this shed and the killers hand coming through the back of it, grabbing onto her. This took a manny attempts to do.
The locations we did use for our teaser trailer was these old abandoned wreckaged building near the newly developed Gloucester Quays. We also used our school Churchdown Academy. We decided to use it in our trailer because when we entered the abandoned building we immediately got a sense of fear. So we thought we would shoot some shots and hopefully it will create the same tension with the audience. What made it such a good location was the fact that it wasn't used and it would be somewhere you'd expect paranormal activity to happen.
We also used our school, due to the long coridoor. We used that location for our victim being dragged from paranormal happenings across the floor. To make this effect we used a skateboard (See Props page for me details). We also used the pipes from the ceiling that i hung off, so we filmed my feet to get the impression that i had been hung. We also used the gym at our school, because we needed to use the safety matt for our thrown at the camera shot. We could of course done this at the abandoned building, but that would have meant transporting it there. So we decided to use it in the gym.
We also used our school, due to the long coridoor. We used that location for our victim being dragged from paranormal happenings across the floor. To make this effect we used a skateboard (See Props page for me details). We also used the pipes from the ceiling that i hung off, so we filmed my feet to get the impression that i had been hung. We also used the gym at our school, because we needed to use the safety matt for our thrown at the camera shot. We could of course done this at the abandoned building, but that would have meant transporting it there. So we decided to use it in the gym.
By Angus Biggar