Pictures of the locations

Whilst we were filmimg for our AS film production, we took pictures of the locations that we were using as our opening. The locations that we chose to film were important for the opening in terms of whether the audience would understand the genre of the film and also to the film opening itself.


Picture 1

Gate of the graveyard

This shot is the beginning of our film. We included the gates of the graveyard with the character standing in the middle, facing ahead. This single, wide shot shows the character wanting to open and go inside this deserted graveyard. From just watching this bit, it is not clear that it is a graveyard. It also looks like a park. There is no clue as to what she intends to do in this shot. This confusing is good result because we don't want the audience guessing what she is going to do right at the beginning.



Picture 2

long shot of the graveyard path



This is still in the graveyard. The character walks along this path. The reason we used this in our opening is because of surrounding. You can see the trees and the leaves on the floor. It creates a tense atmosphere because this scene leads to the part where she is visiting a grave.

Picture 3

inside the house

This third picture shows the living room of the charater. We included the living room in the opening of the film because it helps connect the graveyard and the character's bedroom. The graveyard scene is an important scene in the opening as it gives clues as to what the whole film could be about and the bedroom scene features significant key points about the character's story eventhough we approached it in a subtle way. In order for the character to get to her bedroom, she enters the living room.





Picture 4



bedroom


This picture was taken in the bedroom. The bedroom is important in our opening film like the graveyard. Here, the character looks at a doll which has connections with the graveyard. The connections are again not obvious as it is only the opening of the film. Also, it is at this scene that elements of the film's genre (thriller) can be noticed with the character hearing unexplainable voices. The picture also shows the contrast between the film and the character. As the story is meant to be dark, the picture shows a bedroom which could belong to any 11-year-old girl. We wanted to show that she is a normal girl but with problems.