Moodboard

Location Recce

For one of our locations we have decided to choose a darkroom. The reason why we have done this is so that we could use the red lighting. The colour red connotes danger and death and the fact that our main character is mostly in the darkroom so suggests that there is something wrong about her. This lighting also implies that there is something devilish about her because the lighting almost creates a red halo around her creating the idea of a hellish nature/atmosphere. The other reason why we chose to film in the darkroom is to link it with the storyline of the film because she is a photographer and therefore tells the audience something about the character. We will be using the darkroom at school because it is easy to access and to get permission to film there but because its a darkroom it isn't normally associated with schools so therefore isn't obvious that we are filming in school. Also we will film after school so there won't be any chance of younger children getting filmed. 

For our other location we are going to film in St Louis Meadows in Banbury. We decided to do this because we found when researching that parks were a convention of kidnapping scenes so we thought that it would be a good idea that we film our kidnapping scene in this park. There will be shots where there would be close ups of swings swinging which highlights the abandonment of the park and creates a unsettled atmosphere. We will be filming it during the day because this time period is most popular for a kidnapping event in a park. Also with having a dog walker we found that dog walkers are common within park and we wanted it to be as realistic as possible. 

Call For Actors

We are looking for a woman to play Phoebe. We need her to be able play a 17 year old student who will need to be mysterious. We will not need her to say anything because she isn't going to say anything within the opening. She will need to be able to show great expression within her eyes because we are going to have close up shots of features which will need to be effective. She will need to have a small figure because she is going to be defenceless so she needs to look like she is at a disadvantage. She is going to have blonde hair and blue eyes so we are looking for someone who has these characteristics. She is going to have an uneasy, slightly crazy personality so we will need someone who doesn't look completely right and normal. We will need her to wear jeans, a casual top and converses, this will represent her as being a normal teenager.We will also need her to be familiar with a camera because her prob will be a camera and she needs to be confident and comfortable with it.

We are looking for a man to play Terrance. We will need him to play a 20 year old man who is going to be the antagonist of the story. He is going to be very muscular and story so he comes across as powerful and intimidating. Again there will be no need for him to say anything because he won't be speaking in the opening. We are also going to have him dressed in all black so black boots, black hoodie and black jeans. We will need him to have prominent features because there will be close up shots to show his emotions. We will need him o have dark/brown hair and dark eyes.

We are looking for a woman to play the dog walker. We need her to be a older teenager to play a middle aged dog walker. She will be wearing light colours to show innocence and vulnerability. We are going to have her dressed in a winter coat and hat and scarf to shown the vulnerability against the cold. Also we won't need her to talk because she isn't going to talk in the opening. We would only need her to gasp because during the opening she is going to be hit over the head and the audience will need to hear her reaction. We are going to have her having dark hair and eyes.

Character mind map