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.