Location

When our group was deciding where we wanted to film our thriller, we new that our options would probably be limited because we needed a house or anything similar; We need this because we need several storey’s because there are shots downstairs, shots going up stairs and shot on the higher story. This ruled out few options such as building a set because as we discussed with the school construction crew it would be a lot to complicated. One thing that the whole group agreed upon was that we wanted our location to look realistic (meaning that it looked like an actual lived in house), this ruled out possibly using the school because we felt it would look unrealistic and look like a location for a bad school project. We then thought of possibly using one of the schools several boarding house’s to sea if it could possibly used, Perry would look at the Peaslake boarding house, Zella would look at the Cornhill Manor boarding house and India and I would look at the Beatrice Webb House boarding house; The next day our group met up again and discussed what we had observed and we had each came to the conclusion that each boarding house would look too much like a boarding house rather than a normal house, we came to this conclusion due to many reasons, the size of the houses were to big for somebody who lives alone, the rooms were decorated like in a boarding house with numbers on the room doors and desks fitted around the beds etc. We also came to the conclusion that in any of the boarding houses there were no spare rooms which were not already being lived in and decorated like a students room, we concluded that because it would be to hard to dismantle a room and make it look appropriate for the scenario and that the different boarding houses were to big and to differently decorated from a normal house that we would not want to film there.

    Peaslake Boarding house                                                  Cornhill Boarding House                                              Beatrice Webb Boarding House

     

After we came to this conclusion our group was discussing in class where we could possibly film, and one of our class mates over heard this conversation and told us that he lives very close to school un-like most students who board, and said that he could take some photos of his house for us to show us how it looked so that we could possibly use his house for the shoot if we liked the look of it and thought that it would fit well with our thriller. These are the photo's he sent us:

            Photo of outside of house.                                     Photo inside facing the front door.                                  Photo of downstairs office.

        Photo of downstairs living room.                                           Photo of staircase.                                                       Photo of hallway.

            Photo of upstairs bedroom.                                    Photo #1 of upstairs living room.                                Photo #2 of upstairs living room.

Upon reviewing the photos of his house we thought that it was the most realistic looking option we had, with limited time till the shoot so we immediately accepted the offer. We had to get confirmation from his mother to make sure we could film there, we also had to cast the boy as an extra in our thriller so that there was a member of the family present.

                                                                        Email from parent, permitting us to shoot at their house.