Planning - locations,props and costumes

Locations:

We have thought about possible locations to film and looked at the pros and cons about using these locations. The locations we thought about using are:

·         College

·         Clissold park

·         Finsbury park

·         Springfield park

·         Susana’s house

College:

Using college as a location would work because it’s easy to access whenever we need to. Also some locations in college such as the one below would work were our character Adriana could be running away from the male killer. Although college is easy to access whenever we need and there is no travelling problem it also has a disadvantage of our shots not looking realistic.

Also if we were to use the college garden our footage wouldn't follow the codes and conventions of a thriller as there is not enough trees and space to film.

As we realised the college wasn't a good location we decided to use a park instead, and after viewing all three parks we decided we would film in Springfield park. We decided this because it is closer to college giving us lots of time to film since we wouldn't have a travelling problem. Also out of all the parks Springfield looked really great in terms of filming because it fitted the conventions of a thriller. I think this location is going to work really well.

We also needed somewhere to film Adrianna coming home from work on her birthday. In this scene Mike will be giving her birthday present as a surprise. In order to shot this scene we needed a house and we are planning to use Susana's house. We decided to use a house because it would look realistic.

Costumes:

For Adrianna we plan to use a casual costume when she is running away from Mike because she has lost everything in her life including her job and, because of everything that she has been through. As a result she is always dressing casually . In the scene where she is coming from work I'm planning to film her dressed formally to show how normal her life is. Moreover filming her dressed formally and casually makes the film more effective because it becomes a thriller in a city therefore following the forms and conventions of thrillers.

Mikes character will be wearing casual because we need him to not look like the suspect so looking like the whole of society.

Props:

One of the props we plan to use in our opening sequence is a present bag and casual bag. We need a present bag so our audience can understand that its Adrianna's birthday. Also we need the casual bag so that Adrianna can look like she is coming from work fitting into the formal look.

We will need a necklace in order to make a link to the next scene and we plan to show Adrianna on her birthday getting this necklace from mike after the running scene.

We also need keys as a prop so our scene will look realistic when Adrianna walks into her house.

 

Finally we plan to use a box when Adrianna receives her present. We plan to do this so the present can look expensive so the audience can understand the importance of their relationship.