Location Research

For our location research we decided that we would set ourselves in the woods for the first few clips to our movie and towards the ending, this is mainly because it adds to the creepy eerie feel that we want to produce to show the audience. However although this may be fairly overly used in horror movies such as Cabin In The Woods, we also want to clarify that we have not taken any ideas from the movie, but have instead had inspiration from mythical creatures such as Slenderman. A game had been made about him which is played in the woods with a few building, which we are lucky to have, so we are

able to include a small building as well as woods

into our trailer, both having a creepy effect.

Along with the theme of the woods we are planning to use the inside of a scout hut, although it won't look nearly as good as the picture shown to the left, we will try our best to choose a good time so that the lighting is as eerie as it can be, although there will only be a few short scenes set in the scout hut, we plan on mainly using the woods as the setting, and plan to use them as an establishing shot.





Since there are a few fields nearby to where we are filming at the Oxshott scout hut, we thought that we could do a few panning shots around the field whilst the character is talking about his story, this is to show the audience the setting, and hopefully depending on the weather we are able to get a good shot, for example if it is raining we can enhance the sound of the rain, or if it is sunny we can end the panning shot/ shots with it facing towards the sun, bringing some flares. A field is a good setting for a horror movie since it is so vast and plain, where there could be anything.


Our final setting idea was that we would use someone's bedroom as a idea for the protagonist's house, where we were planning on doing a shot of the protagonists face, peaceful and tranquil, whilst a narration is introduced and creepy music starts taking over, however we were also planning on either starting off with a close angle birds eye shot of the protagonist looking up from his bed, then suddenly the camera cuts and we cut back into the chase scene, this setting would be good because the lighting could easily be  manipulated.