Recce Report

Forest

We liked this location as it is very run down and isolated. The dead plants help to reinforce the loneliness in this location. We made sure that all of the shots we used in this location were faced away from the fence to the park, as we wanted to make the forest area seem as isolated as possible.

I would have liked to use the forest area at night but when we filmed in the dark the footage was too dark, we had to use video editing instead to achieve this effect

 Hallway

We used this part of the hallway for two scenes – the empty hall shot and the used sweet wrapper shot. The empty hall shot was edited to look like it was at night and the sweet wrapper was at day time. We used this area as the trailer we filmed is set in and around a college. The hallway at night was to emphasise the loneliness in a place that is meant to keep you safe, and the sweet wrapper was to show that the final girl had disappeared.

Stairwell

This area was very good to use as it was both in college and isolated. We only used this area for one quick shot of the villain from behind. This area seems very lonely when the bottom of the stairwell isn’t lit. in the shot we took, the villain is walking from the top of the stairwell and the bottom half isn’t lit, so he walks into darkness and isn’t visible to the audience. This helps to reinforce that the villain is sneaky and can hide in most places, making the audience feel uneasy.

Courtyard

We used this courtyard as it has a variation of scenery in one place. The trees were used as another shot in the forest for when we needed to shoot one more shot but didn’t have time or an ability to get down to the forest area. The benches near the building were used also as a shot just outside the college, and we used the wall as a suspense-building shot, with the villain walking beside it slowly dragging a knife along the bricks.

Media hallway

We like this hallway as it seems very cramped from the angle I took this picture at. The walls seem very close together with a low ceiling.  This helps to make the audience feel uneasy and also as though there is no escape from the villain

Lockers

We used the lockers for a shot with both the victim and the villain, and the final killer shot. We used these lockers as they are in a confined space without much lighting. Also, we had a lot of shots from outside of the college, using these lockers helped to make sure the audience knew this was set in a college with college students.