Planning- Settings and Locations

After our research into what makes a film scary we found that many people found that isolated locations were considered to be a scary convention for a thriller-horror film. This convention is something that was first identified in gothic novels when the era of gothic emerged in literature. We found that this was an important stereotypically scary convention to include as we was creating a thriller-horror film. Therefore we decided to incorporate an abandoned barn as seen above in the image as a main location for our film.

In great contrast to this we have also incorporated shots of our characters in our sixth form school environment. This is firstly because in the trailers we have watched such as 1408 they always start with a neutral setting where there are not any stereotypically "horror" related mise-en-scene. Due to our young target demographic as discussed a school setting was also important for us to use as it is a typical environment that they see everyday therefore creating a relaxed feel to our trailer before we introduce our fast paced montage which will incorporate the horror from our locations as seen from the barn location. This location due to how relatable it is for our audience also reinforces the verisimilitude we wanted to create for the audience. 

These two main locations compliment each other well because they are so contrasting that they allow for the audience to quickly identify between the scenes of suspense and other scenes which release the tension built by isolated settings like the barn.