Setting and Location

For our Media film we spent a lot of time discussing and deciding upon locations to film our final production, after many hours of deliberation we decided on these 4 locations:

Tom Vales house

Tom Vale lives in a private road, the houses are all nicely made and look like the place where you would expect the wealthier people of the nation to reside. This is the location we have chosen to be our Victims home. We feel this location gives our victim the look of someone doing well in life, and has very few worries, thus making it all the more shocking when she is kidnapped.

Hutton ‘Forest’

In our production there is a scene where our victim walks her dog whilst back at her home (Tom Vales House) the antagonist is breaking in and replacing the protagonist’s medication. We chose this location due to its footpaths which are commonly used by dog walkers and joggers so it gives the sense of a normal day in a normal life. The ‘Forest’, for lack of a better word, is less than 5 minutes away from our protagonist’s house which therefore gives us the opportunity to film the walk there as well, without changing locations and breaking the flow of events.

Tom’s Road

On the private road where Tom Vale lives we intend to shoot our protagonist walking out of her house onto the road where she will then begin to walk down the street. In these shots many other houses down the road will be visible, this will show our viewers more of the lifestyle our protagonist must have. We feel this is necessary because we really want the audience to see our character as a well-off, innocent girl.

Justine’s Room

In Justine Carron’s house there is a room we intend to use to film certain shots of our thriller. The room is the location where our antagonist keeps his kidnapped victims. The room displays certain qualities which could be interpreted as the room of a mentally ill person. The room looks ‘cold’ and feels secluded, the walls are a creamy white colour but due to the fact it is just painted bricks it looks like it is almost decaying, yet it is also strangely clean, thus giving the effect that the room is owned by a strange person who kept it clean for a special reason. The white could be seen as a connotation of the insanity of the antagonist, and also could display the innocence of our victims.
The shots we intend to film in this room are:
• Our protagonist bound and waking up in her new surroundings,
• A second victim is seen in the room,
• Our opening credits,
• Our antagonist frantically tearing and writing on pictures of our protagonist.