Location Pictures

Our choice of location:

Our choice of location had to revolve around our plot for The Unknown, whereby an innocent girl called Annie (protagonist) is being stalked and haunted by the unknown spirits which are upheld within a house. As a group and collectively, we had decided that ideally the location would have to be set within a house which is situated within a sub urban neighbourhood. During our research we had conducted we had concluded that the ideal location will be a local and nearby house which will look identical to the houses situated nearby. The reason why we had decided to do this is because the opening establishing shot within our trailer is of the house therefore if we were to show a house which had looked typically spooky and derelict it would’ve given the plot away to the target audience immediately which is however quite conventional in some horror genre movies. Moreover, the plot also includes Annie moving into a new home therefore if the house were to be derelict it could’ve possibly confused the target audience and we may have possibly lost our sense of realism. In addition, due to this sub-urban neighbourhood holding some key conventions of a horror genre film, we had decided that this location will be ideal. For example, during the hours which we had conducted our shooting, we had found that through our extensive research that the tree’s which were located directly outside the homes had been given a shadow at a certain time of day therefore by using these spooky shadows during our trailer, it connotes to the audience that this house has a sense of enigma and spookiness about it. Also, after researching about the possible weather which we may have to expect during our times of shooting, we had found that the house will look ideal within the location during the days of which the sun was not present as this had allowed us to use natural sources of light to gain some key luminous and natural lighting in and around our location thus connoting to the target audience a sense of realism about the film along with enigma also. Lastly, due to some logistical problems which we had previously encountered when trying to shoot at several other locations, having set a the film within the sub-urban neighbourhood had allowed us to combat a logistical problem as we were located within a 5 mile radius in order to transport our equipment successfully.