Scenary and Location

For our trailer and to keep to the conventions of it being a thriller, we had to make sure that the location was perfect for this. Making sure that the lighting and sound was not to bright and not to loud but we were able to keep some sounds that we wanted for our trailer, for example when we edited the shot of Harley with the male character Jacob we edited out the rest of the background sound apart from her laughter. Other parts to our sound was our voice over was a male voice and then we decided to change it to Harleys voice, we did this because it is more conventional for the female to be the voice over as the target audience can then feel apathetic to the victim, it also becomes more interesting for the target audience because it creates a sense of realism.

The location we chose was Harley’s house for the shots of her scared so that it was more comfortable for the audience and so it wasn’t a drastic variety of shots for our trailer. We also then chose to shoot in Riverside Country Park, this was useful for our master shot at the beginning of the trailer, we also used this location for most of our shots because the area was convenient for our filming. We used a wide range of shots with this location from long shots with Jacob walking towards the camera to extreme close up of a male character’s feet.

I think the location worked well with our trailer because it made the shots look ery and ominous, the way that we used the wide shot for the opening of the trailer, allowed the audience to have an open mind of the film and not to be set with just one location. So we used a variety of locations; Harley's house, riverside, an open field and also town shots of cars moving. This variety worked well because there was a wide spread of ideas and it then allowed the narrative to take place.