Location and Costume

On Saturday 21st February 2009 my group gathered together so that we could plan our location. we began brainstorming each location and also the benefits and negatives of each. My original idea needed to be shot in the school car park however, we had realised that it would be too difficult to capture the requested sound due to there being so much background noise from the cars going by. As a result we had to change the location however, we also ended up altering the storyline so we didn't need to shot in the car park anymore. We were relieved as we were worried that we wouldn't be able to find the correct location for the original idea. We then began listing down locations for our new storyline. these locations included the school playground, the drama studio and school canteen. All these three locations were chosen because each of them played an important factor in our film. the school playground was going to be used as a place were the audience would get a sense of loneliness. This was going to be done by placing the character in a huge open environment were he has no one but himself and his music. The school playground was the only place we found suitable. The drama studio was going to be used because it was really dark. The atmosphere of the room was also creepy due to its location in the school and also due to its props. For example it had a huge window which was positioned in the middle of the wall. This window allowed the character to view what was in the other room clearly. We tried to benefit from this factor by producing a really important scene were we would use the window. We ended up getting inspiration from another film which used the same shot of the window. After listing the suitable locations we began discussing the costumes that we were going to use. As the opening of the film was going to be based in a school. We decided to go with the normal school uniform. However, we had to focus more on the costume of the villain because he wasn't going to be wearing school uniform. we decided that he would be wearing black. We did this so that we reinforce the idea of "black clothes means bad guy." This is common in any film. Also we decided to dress him up in black because we were trying to copy the way the villain looks like in "Urban Legend.