Location Scouting

One location our group agreed on using was a burnt down community known as 'The Civ.' This was chosen as it is a particularly bleak, dark setting that connotates images of immorality and destruction.
A lane that leads up to the location we will primarily be filming in. It may be included in an opening shot of our film, intertwining with the opening titles of our film. This was chosen as it connotates images of isolation with its narrow, forest lane alongside its very dark and gothic surroundings.


One of the few entrances to the civ. This frayed hole in a fence may be used in the first shots of our scene as it emphasises entrapment and a feeling of desperation if used for either an entrance or exit. Such factors as the rust of the gate also indicate certain qualities of thriller, indicating a lack of care and a flawed enviroment.

A gate that blocks off many entrances to the civ. This may be used in our film because of its connotations of not only isolation and entrapment, but its paticular structure of sharp points at the top indicating danger and harm. It also contains the qualities of the hole in the fence with its distinctive lack of maintenance, emphasising the bleak and dark qualities of thriller.




This is the main corridor once entering our location. This will definatly be used in our thriller as it shows many factors of the thriller films we have been studying. The distinct destruction, grafitti and litter indicates a dark, flawed enviroment and the long, bleak and isolated setting draws many comparisons scenes in "The Third Man".



(Above) Film group member Dan going through the main corridor of the civ. (Below) Two scenes of iconic thriller film "The Third Man" that shares qualities of the scene above, particulerly the very narrow, unavoidable path.

This image will most probably be included in our film. Mainly because it emphasises not just a flawed, destroyed, immoral word shown in many thriller films but the light beaming through indicates a battle of morality, something also scene in "The Third Man."































(Left) An image from location scouting in the civ. (Right) An image from "The Third Man" that draws up the same imagery of a battle of morality, light and dark. Another similarity is how this battle is shown, with light breaking through a particuler hole and exit in what is scene as somewere dark and isolated. The left image may be shown in our film with our title spraypainted alongside the hole, used in our opening sequence. Drawing imagery from the image below, the music album cover of "Who Needs Actions When You've Got Words" by "Plan B", which also connotates images of bleakness and desolation.

Continuety Task 2

1) The planning for my filiming task consisted of my group and I constructing both a storyboard and a shooting map consisting in detail what we were going to film and how.





2) The 180 degree rule used in my filming task a basic guideline in film making that states that two characters (or other elements) in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. If the camera infringes the axis connecting the two characters the audience is confused and disorientated.

A picture showing the definition and rules of the 180 degree rule.

3) In the continuety task my group used an array of shot types and angles, with the main shot in question when character 1 walks down the corridor. This is shot with a tracking shot, emphasising the location used, a school, as it creates the illusion someone is also going down the corridor, following the character.