Location shots coming soon...

I took a few location shots before I even started the blog to establish in my mind what the shots may look like at filming. There is a picture of a bedside table, a picture of the stairs, a picture of the upstairs hall looking at the bathroom, a picture of the bath, a picture of the front door, a picture of a graveyard, a picture of the front room and a picture of a forest. All of these locations come into my storyboard. I only have a couple with me as I am at sixth form now; the rest of the photos are at home. However, for the moment I shall improvise with some I can find on google.

Here is a dark forest. I hope to get a similar shot when filming as the light coming through the trees is rather spooky. However, the shot will be a high one so that the dead woman that shall be on the floor looks like the victim. It shows the person looking over them as dominant and shows their vulnerability.

Here is an image of a front door. In my trailer, the protaganist shall be running towards it and locking it in a panic. The shot shall be a long one like this and will then transfer quickly to a close up for a shock. I could use a shadow idea through the window pain for an added dramatic effect.

Here is a dark graveyard. When I take the shot, there shall be a dead woman in her lieing on the grass between the gravestones with open eyes. The scene shall be dark to empasise the scare of it and the shot shall be high so that she looks vulnerable and not as dominant as the person looking over her.

Here is a bedside table. This is where the trailer will start with the phone on top of it, ringing. It is a normal setting and there is no immediate sign that this is a horror. A bedside table is something everybody has and bringing a horror into the comfort of somebodys own home can increase fear within the audience.

Here is a door which I am pretending is a bathroom door. This is how a shot will look. It will be from the point of view of the killer with the audience assuming the protagonist is within the room he shall be entering. It will be a handheld shot to show him walking towards it and this will increase the suspense within the scene as it will be slow and due to the nature of the shot.

This is a high shot of a living room. Originally, I was going to have an over the shoulder shot over the protaganist who is watching the tv on the sofa. However, after seeing this shot I really like this idea. I feel that if I were to do this, it would make the woman vulnerable and less dominant than the person watching. It also gives an impression of a 'fly-on-the-wall' type of situation. The man then saying 'I found you' on the phone would back up the impression of her being watched.

This is a shot that I could see in my minds eye when writing the story board. The angle, the position and the expression of the woman are all I imagined. The lighting however would be darker and by candlelight to give an intimacy and to represent the last calm part of her life.

Candles can usually be quite creepy in the right situations and they can create good shadows on the wall for added scare.

This (left) is the kind of atmosphere I would like to acheive.

Here is an image of an upstairs hall. If this was a shot I would use, that door at the end would be the bathroom door which is being approached.

Here is an image of some stairs. The stairs I imagined to be on the other side and in the shot, it will be very close up of a foot going up the stairs.

The actual story board will be uploaded soon... :)