Location Research

Off set location: Where you're using the outside world rather than setting up in a studio. This is cheap and of course the quickest way to film, and can be just as effective.

Popular settings for horror movies:

• Alleys
• Parks
• Dark areas
• Quiet Areas
• Forests
• Houses
• Anywhere unpredictable.

Atmosphere: Must be a very lonesome area where a dangerous and catious things could happen. Usually in horror movies, the locations are often sometimes local places, but based at night time. Most horror movies use a lot of low-key lighting, or natural dark lighting. There are a few which have special colour lighting to give a more emotional effect, but this is way more expensive and takes longer to set up.

Location 1: The forest.

The forest is a lovely place to be during the daytime, and obviously with the wonderful nature around people suspect that it's peacful,calm and relaxing. The forest is a ideal location and we chose it because, from my research it's a very popular location for British horror films, like Wrong Turn. The advantages to the forest is that there is absalutely no where the victim can run, once they've entered it. The forest is a easy place to capture or murder a victim during the night time where nobody is around to watch.

The trees add to the idea that there's no where to hide. In the forest there is no signal to call for help, the whole place is just hard to see past, especially with all the branches/trees and logs that will give the victim less time to run. Also from my research, forest's are easy to get lost into, as the place can sometimes pretty much look the same, and in the night the victim won't be able to see very clear what is around him/her.

Sometimes in horror movies, graffiti is used in the setting of the forest location. This is where the crime comes into our opening, when graffiti is used in a opening to a film the audience often get the idea that the film is set in a very dangerous but local area, where it's perhaps never really safe.

Cover's of films which use a similar setting.

Location 2: The office

The office is a very high standard place where detectives can easily get their job done, and quickly. Within showing an office in our film, we let the audience understand that they are important people and that they have quite upper class hard working jobs. The office shows that they have pretty much everything they need, and that they are working on a crime case.

A huge range of crime and even crime and horror films like ours, use a office at some point during their film.

Offices are quite professional, and for quite higher/upper class important characters when they are used in films. Once the office is shown, the audience know that there will be more happening throughout the film, and that more will be happening within that spacific location.

To make our location look realistic, and to suit our storyline, we decided to stick posters up around the office on the walls, and pinning them up, other real missing articles which are actually real life stories. This imidietly shows the audience that it is a film dealt with crime aspects. Also, the missing article gives the audience some idea that the world in our film is actually a very unsafe place to be, because of the amount of time spent on missing cases. The missing people posters also tell the audience that there are detectives within our film.