Location Ideas

Once we had the whole plot and costumes for our thriller, the next thing we had to do was choose a location to film at. We thought that the main location should be a in an average house, so that the audience would not suspect anything suspicious if it was a more abnormal location. We also wanted a location that the audience could relate to and not feel that the main character was seriously different to them. Our main location was the kitchen, this is a place where the main character does typical things after a day at work. There were no props in the kitchen that stood out or were put there for a particular reason, they were mainly just the average kitchen utensils and other objects that would be found in most kitchens.

As the killer performs all the murders in the house, we thought it would be a good idea to use the garage as it is a quite small and dingy area and contrasts with the killers emotions. The lighting outside the house is very high key and bright which again contrasts against the low key, dark lighting used in the garage. I feel that this reflects on how the audience’s mood would change throughout the thriller opening. It is more optimistic near the start, however the mood turns cold and tense towards the end of our film.