Recce Shots

Location/costume research

 

 For the beginning of our film trailer where the girls are seen in the car travelling to the house where the horror prevails, we decided to shoot at Astbury Mere. We chose this area because not only is it surrounded by some woodland, but there is also a big lake that can be seen in some of the shots. Although no horror prevails in said scenes, will still felt as though it was important to choose a location that looked a bit creepy and scary to indicate from the outset the genre of the film. It also contrasted nicely with the happy non-diegetic music that was over the top of theses shots.

 

 

 

 

For the last frames in our trailer we knew that we wanted to film in a woodland area because this is often a desired area used in existing media trailers and also it was one of the preferred locations chosen by our audience in the questionnaires that we conducted.

Therefore for the last shots we decided to film at Brereton Heath Park. It is a woodland area that has lots of open space giving us the opportunity to be creative with the shot types that we use as well as creating realistic footage as our actors were able to move around more freely in the space that we had.

Below are some pictures that we took before we started filming, of an area in Brereton that we thought we be perfect for filming. It was quite open, however it looked very eerie due to all of the skeletal trees that were surrounding the area; emphasising the feeling of isolation.



Costume and Make-Up

In order to make the main protagonist look convincing and fitting to the role that she was playing, it was essential that we found an effective costume for her to wear as well as experimenting with makeup.
As the girl in our film was playing the role of a young girl we wanted to make her look as realistic in relation to this role as possible. We decided to buy a nightdress for her to wear because not only does it have creepy connotations as this is often see to be worn on horror characters in horror films, but it also makes her look quite vulnerable and innocent which completely contradicts the character she actually is. We then really wanted to heighten the horror element when it came to the make-up because we wanted her face to really stand out to the audience to show the scary nature of this character. We used a base of white face paint so that she would look very pale which connotes the horror genre as it makes her look supernatural and ghostly. We then decided to put black eye make-up around her eyes to make the overall look of her face much more sinister. Also the face that you sometimes can't properly see her eyes because of the darkness of the make-up makes for an even more scary character.