Chosen Loaction

Chosen Location
The decided location to shoot the opening for the thriller is in three places (inside and outside shots): Blackheath Common, my house and my aunts house. Out of all our possible outside locations, we chose Blackheath because of it's numerous strengths offering us a lot to work with. We also chose to go with both of our options of possible inside locations, we hope to split it in a way where the switch in locations won't be obvious to the audience. First I'll discuss our decision for choosing Blackheath. This location is very easily accessible for me (who will be doing the filming) and also offers a lot of the feature we were looking for in our setting. The storyboard of the opening shows that is essential that we have quite long roads, a bus stop and a few passing vehicles (for a sense of normality). Not only this because most of the opening will consist if walking and running/chase scenes, the specifics of the location needed were a must. Due to Blackheath Common having multiple long, quite deserted paths, lengthy roads (with minimal cars), old, deserted nearby houses and plenty street lights to help lighting and emphasise loneliness, this location was the best environment with ideal mise-en-scene. Below is a collection of pictures, experimenting with where in Blackheath we  the location we may use and different shot types with one of the characters in a few shots.

 

In the storyboard there are plenty shots of Lauren walking alone on these long pathways with a few cars passing by. This long road with the advantage of a gate for a sense of 'where does she go from here', and cars passing could build tension in the audience as it not only shows normality but also could frustrate them into wondering why no one is noticing what is happening. Blackheath Common is an ideal location for these elongated paths and minimal cars at evening times. 


We also chose to do our inside shots in both of the locations we originally decided. We decided that we could easily split them, using the strengths alone to film to our advantage. Firstly we will be shooting at my aunts house. The storyboard shows we need shots of Ronnie getting out of bed and shots of him in the bathroom looking into a mirror. These shots are the shots we plan to do at this location. 



For the other inside shots, we chose to film at my house. Here, we will be filming Ronnie getting dressed, going to the kitchen and getting the knife. As my aunts house has a joint kitchen, it would have been harder to get that sense of a complete kitchen and harder to film him coming into the kitchen without getting the other room in it. Also there is more bedroom space here to film him getting dressed.