Location

We purposely set our location in a 1700's cottage to gain a more suitable place for our opening sequence. It worked very well with out thriller theme and gave us an added effect to the mis-en scene. For example, the beams on the ceilings and walls made our location look old which added to the scary ambiance. The rooms we filmed in were chosen to give us the best outcome we could get with our only location. We discovered during the filming process that the doors and floorboards were very creaky. This was great to have for our filming as the ambient sounds were created manually and we could control when we would put them in. It also made the sounds seem much more realistic and gave us scary sound effects to include. As the majority of our opening sequence would be filmed in a room,. We looked at all five bedroom options and took into consideration of the surroundings and the space we needed to film.The bedroom we chose is a small, wooden room which looked realistic for a teenage girl but eary at the same time. The surroundings in this bedroom were a bedside table and a office table which gave us less chance of making errors with the mis-en scene. However, there were some issues that we encountered when filming. These include some unwanted sounds from doors, wooden floors and dogs that were present at the time of the production process. Therefore, we will need to edit these sounds out of our footage to avoid making our opening sequence look unprofessional. 

When our group arrived at this location, we looked around each room we would be using and see if it would work well with our narrative. One of the rooms we were going to include in our opening sequence was the living room as it had the sofa in it which the girl was hiding behind. However, we discovered that where the sofa was placed, it would be challenging to film the way we wanted to from lack of space and lighting. We came to the conclusion that changing our plan slightly from this detail was the best thing to do. We all agreed to have this scene completed in the kitchen. This allowed us to proceed with our pan around the female character and gave us more sound effects to add in which were available in the kitchen. These include the radio fuzzing and the door creaking. The kitchen location was a much wider space which gave us the room and distance that we needed for the filming.