Location Shot Ideas

                                 Location Shot Ideas


All of these location shots are in Baldock, near The Knights Templar School and the fire station. I chose this location because it had all of the things we needed in one area; fields, forests and a tunnel.

This map shows where the location is set. It is the triangular shape area with tree's around and a field in the middle.

 

 

This map shows the route that we will take the days that we will shoot. We will all meet at The Knights Templar School because that is a destination that everyone knows, we will then go down park street, into Weston Way and then we will go down a pathway which will bring us straight to the destination.

 

 

 

 

Shot One.

This location would be used as a pathway which our victim would run down. I was thinking about having this as a potential starting for our horror opening because it is just after the pathway stops it goes like a T junction, so the camera could be in the pathway while we get the victim to run past it. This would also be a great place to film because you could have the camera at different levels, to get a different angles, to give a different effect for the audience. The only problem that could occur with this location is because it is right next to a motorway so it is very noisy what ever time of day I went.

 

 

 

Shot Two.

This shot is just a bit further on from the first shot. The audience would see the victim's face on in this shot, showing her facial expressions as well as her make-up and costume. I took this photo in black and white and in colour to see which would look better, but I thought that black and white was too light that I didn't see all of the detail at that time of day, where as with the colour I could see more detail, but it wasn't very spooky.

 

 

Shot Three.

 This location was good for my horror movie opening because it creates an obstacle for the victim, which makes her slower and the villain can catch up more, even though the audience hasn't seen him yet. By creating an obstacle for my victim, gives a good chance for the audience to see how scared and upset she is of this villain. I again took this photo in black and white and in colour for the same reasons but I decided it looked better in black and white but I couldn't have one bit in black and white and the rest in colour so I needed to sort the colours out by going back a bit later, at another time, to see whether it would look better a bit later on.

Shot Four.

This location would be good for my horror opening because it is another obstacle for my victim as well as leading onto a field which we could use. The field would be good to use because it has a higher point that I could stand, so that we could then have the victim running across the field, which would make them look small and venerable and then we could swap to standing one side of the opening of the field and have the victim running out of it, so that the audience could see the victim's worry and makeup again.

Shot five.

This is the shot of the field I was talking about in the last shot. It was a good location to use because it had a really high point that I could stand on while filming and then I could make the victim look small and venerable. I also thought that I could have the villain standing in the field, harder to see but if the audience was to see him, they would get worried as to who this mysterious figure was. It also has a gate which I could use if I wanted to, this would mean it would be harder for the victim to get out, or I could show the villain entering, showing only his back.

Shot Six.

This location would be good to use because it looks isolated and looks scary to the audience. I could have the victim running past, or watch her running away from the character. This photo was taken a bit later then the ones before and it is a good lighting because it is just getting dark, so with the trees it gives a good affect for the audience. Right at the end it rears off to the right, looking like it is a dead end. This is good because it means that the victim will have to stop to look where to go next, which would give the impression that she really doesn't know where she is going and shows the panic.

 

 

 

Shot Seven.

This location would be very good for our horror movie because I could have the villain hiding in these and we could have the victim running past without noticing that he is there. I could then get the villain to walk out and start slowly following her, clutching his knife. This would all give a tense feeling to the audience as well as showing he is very calm with all of it and he knows in the end he is going to get her whether she runs, walks or gives up. This would be nearer to the end of the opening as it shows the villain more and we don't want him to be shown early on because we want to build the tension first.

 

 

 Shot Eight.

This location is a long, spooky pathway, leading to another field, which would be great to film a bit of my horror film in because it looks like a never ending path that would give the audience a sense that she was lost and it would be like she was running for a long time. This location is also really good because I could have my villain walking a bit behind her, showing finally that he is stalking her and it will all add up that the voice over is talking about the mysterious character that is walking behind this innocent woman. With the fence on one side and the hedge on another it looks like she has no way of escaping so she just has to keep running with hope that at some point she will be able to escape.