Planning for production - List of Locations

School Hall (where the exams will take place)

 

The use of a exam hall is used as it is the place where the majority of our young characters will be and also links directly to themes of Success vs. Failure as success and striving to succeed is primarily what a school represents. The fact we have students getting killed in school highlights the sense of failure, not only in amibiton but also in life. 


Underground of the school

The dark lighting alone highlights themes of isolation and fear that is used in horror movies. The fact the room is small very small and entrapped gives it a deranged sense of feeling that presents the danger and threat that the genre itself imposes. This has been done in movies like Saw in which the closed entrapped setting allows the threat of danger from the protagonist to be heightened, thus playing on themes of the actual genre.

Suicide Girls house

Representation of the location

From our research we discussed how a lot of horror movies are often set somewhere in the domestic sphere to highlight a sense of danger within your own home and surroundings, a theme often used in horror movies (E.G. Scream, Curfew, The Ring) to emphasize the element of danger.

School toilets

Representation of the location

Likewise with the suicide girls house, a school toilet is a very private domestic place. To challenge and play on conventions of breaking the domestic sphere that we previously discussed, we have chosen to have girls and boys smoking in the boys toilet as it represents the illicit behavior usually seen by teenagers in horror films and also we plan to have the killer breaking into the toilet to play on themes use in horror films of never being free from danger.

Normal Street

Representation of the location

Plan to use a deserted street on a (as seen in the picture above) rainy and mist day as it sets the mood of the film, the use of rain and mistiness giving the film a dark and uneasy feeling to it which in someways can be seen as a use of Pathetic Fallacy to set tone and mood, thus allowing us to emphasize the sense of fear and mystery of the film.

These are the initial list of locations that we plan to use for our film.  We plan to locate most of our trailer around the school as this is where the majority of the major events take place and is also something our target audience can identify with as they all are or at one point was at school. We plan to use the underground of the school as the setting is quite dark and entrapped and so links to themes of isolation and fear used in horror and so is a distinctive feature of the horror genre. The use of a normal street and characters houses creates feeling of normality vs. Surrealism often seen in horror movies.