Our Location

For the first part of our thriller, we had to film an instant messaging scene, this was done easily as every member of our group was seen as a possibility, as we could film at their house. All we needed was a computer to film Paige on and a laptop / other source of instant messenger for someone to type messages to her. We decided to use my house because it's closest to school and we could easily get the train to and from there whenever we needed to. Also, as we wanted Paige to come across quite innocent we thought my room would be the best choice because of my pink walls in the background, so we incorporated colour coding into our decision.

We found our main location by help of Mrs Cookson as it's in our school boiler room. Once we told her that we wanted something along the lines of a pipe / pole Paige could be handcuffed too, she asked permission for the school boiler room straight away for us. We wanted this because we thought it would be effective for the main character to be handcuffed to poles to make it obvious she had been abducted. We thought it would be a good setting overall for a thriller, as it's quite dark and we used effects to make it look eerie. It's an easy location for us to get to, as none of our group can drive yet, it will be easy for us to film during school hours and somedays afterschool as well. We always checked we could film there beforehand.

At the end of our thriller opening sequence, we have a shot of Paige lying dead on the ground, this was also easy for us to do as it was also on the school grounds. To find the shot we liked enough to use, we walked around the school grounds shooting various shots of Paige in different places / different positions.

Leila Robertson