Location Photos and Description - Woodland

Location Details

For our 2 minute film, the majority of it shot in a wooded area quite late in the day and a couple of shots are shot in a bedroom environment.
Because our group all lives quite far apart we need to consider that we need a location that is easily reachable for all 4 of us that we are able to reach easily and it not be much hassle. We also need to consider that we are going to want to film these shots when it is getting dark so there are safety issues we need to consider and also the fact that if the area that we are filming in, especially the wooded area, is going to be quite far away from certain members homes and we are filming quite far away then we need to make sure that each person can get home safely and at a reasonable and safe time. So considering all these factors we are looking into locations across our local area to see what will sufficiently due for the film.

Options for the woods:
We are taking some inspiration from certain films such as The Blair Witch Project, Wrong Turn, Evil Dead and Last House on the Left.

These 2 shots are scenes from The Blair Witch project. The film is extremely notorious for its location and  the way that it is set out in its wooded environment is exactly the way that we are wanting to set ours/. The first shot shows a heavily wooded area that looks very secluded and secretive which is definitely an element of what we are considering to do in our production as we want our location to seem as though there is no way out which this environment does.

This second shot also shows the main character of the film, but she is in an area that does infact seem to be surrounded by leaves. We definitely want the leaves on the floor in our film as we want the diagetic and non diagetic noises of leaves and twigs crunching so that the audience is constantly reminded of the setting and environment and also so that the film relates in some way to real life. Also in the 'chase and fall' scene I believe that the leaves will come in as very effective because they can be used to be thrown on the characters so make it seem more messy and more of a struggle.

This shot is from the location of one of the Wrong Turn horror franchise which is mainly set in wooded areas. This shot is actually one of the shots that we are considering using for one of our shots, as we feel it is a creative shot and it will be useful to us to capture the characters face using a close up but also that paired with the fact that the environment is also shown in the background. This would re-enforce the characters situation and would make and audience empathise with them more.

These pictures are also very useful for us to use because for example the top shot is very good to be used as a two shot as we get a difference in levels which is good to show how powerful the characters are and you can see how they are coping with the situations that they are entailed in. Also the fact that there is quite flat ground is good and something that we want to consider whilst filming because then we will be able to easily run. A lot of our shots involve running and we are trying to consider that we need it to look effective like the characters are actually struggling to run but also we want all of the cast and crew to be safe whilst filming so we need to try and pick a relatively flat surface so it is safe.





The image that is to the right is from a 1984 film called Evil Dead. The movie is actually set out to be quite abstract and even the location, as well as the story line, messes with your head. The log cabin looks very confined as if there is no way out and that is a theme that we would like to register when considering our location. We would like to use the element of entrapment as we feel that this would create the mood, theme and atmosphere that we are looking for especially in a psychological horror as I feel that it is going to make the audience feel that they have to fit into this story line that they wont have anywhere else to go, much like the characters.