Initial thoughts and ideas:

Locations:

As a group we had a wide variety of suggestions for possible places to film our project. We were not allowed to film in classrooms but were allowed to film in the building, the surrounding areas and places of our choice (locations that were completely away from the college). We narrowed it down to around about ten places. We agreed that because of the fact that our aim was to shoot a horror/thriller we wanted to follow specific rules in terms of how and where to film to make it look like a typical horror. As a result of the questionnaire, the question that asked what type of location is best suited for horrors, the majority of people answered a derelict, unused, spooky atmosphere. Fortunately, alot of thrillers and in particular the three that we studied, included scenes where the camera focused on the characters involved a derelict, spooky area.

We ended up with around about five potential locations for our film, all in Bristol. These were Leigh Woods, an underpass leading into a road across the sixth form, Abby's house, a small park by some derelict flats and the car park outside the sixth form. We tried arranging a time to film in Leigh Woods but nobody could make it as it was during a half term, this left us with four locations to use. We finally agreed to stick with four locations as they fitted the conventions of horrors i.e. derelict, dark, abandoned areas. Although we only had four locations to film our project, all four of us decided that it was for the best because we wanted to maintain the idea of simplicity throughout our film and an over use of too many locations could result in confusing the audience.

Finally, we all agreed to not use any 'establishing shots' in order to keep the simple locations to a minimal to create a sense that the audience had to concentrate alot more on the characters and not the scenery. This could be on the body language, the facial expressions or merely the dialogue happening in the scene between two or more characters. Location and scenery is not a huge aspect to horrors at all.