Why i chose certain

·          Settings

As I live in the area, I often walk through the woods and thought it would be the perfect setting for I movie. Before we choose our setting, I took Immy to the setting and that is where we got some preview shots and setting ideas. After visiting it, we knew it would be perfect for our film, which we would shoot there in the following weeks. The only problem with this location is that it is quite hard to transport all of the casts, crew and our equipment considering most of them live at fram. Our biggest concern with filming was the lighting, but now that we have completed our trailer, it didn’t turn out to be problem at all. It wasn’t that dark when we were filming, but it was aery suitable as it was very dull and murky. Another problem we had when we were planning as that we were worried about being down the location as it got very dark very quickly and the woods were in the middle of nowhere with no man made lighting or local houses. To balance this out, we took some torches down and all of our actors had mobile phones (will coverage). Another advantage is that with our setting being so remote it meant that it was very unlikely that we would have anyone walking through are camera shot. This gives us a little more freedom on shooting as we were not limited to shooting any parts for the woods.

·          Characters and clothing

Emma Dixon (our female actor), doesn’t wear a lot of make up in our trailer. This came as an advantage as it made her look less artificial and more believable as an actor the audience. When we planned her outfit, we wanted basic clothes with not a lot of accessories or excess clothing items.  The point of this was to draw the audience attention to Emma’s emotions rather than what she was wearing. Giving the actor a more innocent, natural feel would make the audience feel more in common with her as she isn’t an “artificial actor”. Liam (our male actor) was meant to be the more dominant character who was there to scare Emma. An advantage is that he is very tall making him look very powerful and he also had a more dark range of clothing on, making Emma stand out for being even more innocent. Both of our actors costumes were “block colours” which means they very most visible, considering the woods is a very busy and overcrowded area. The audience will judge you by the clothes our actors wear and associate them clothes with their identity.

·          Our story and our myth

From the beginning, me and Imogen knew that we wanted to do a horror film. However, we knew we didn’t want to create a so called “part 2” to our AS project. From the experience we gained from that project, we wanted to show it in a more challenge way. When we visited the woods, we also went down there to look for ideas for our plot ( this was very early on in planning ). It was shortly after that we saw some mines and thought they would be a good basis for our myth. When we were finally established on a myth, we were stuck between 2 different scripts. We then asked all of our media class and outside members (aged between 15-22) on which they would where the best. This helped us to choose the script which was more suitable. After asking people why they choose that perfect script, we asked why and the main improvement they said would benefit us was that we should take out one line which was, “once upon a time”. The myth relates to both the setting ( the woods ) and what will happen if someone enters the forest.