Locations, Mise-en-scene, costume, props

Location:

We always knew it would be easiest to film the school scene at our school but the time and part of the school was harder to find the we thought. Because we had to film at lunchtime due to the only available time convenient for the cast, the issue of noise was a problem. From a school setting you would expect classrooms or play courts but because these were being used at the time, we had to settle for a 'path'. We chose the school setting as it signifies the age of the characters and it is a general location which the audience can relate to. We decided to have an urban setting for the rest of the film in a middle class detached house. We chose this as it is a similar setting to nightmare on elm street as they use a detached house as it makes the characters look more alone and like no-one can hear them if they scream etc. We initially thought the bathroom scene would be difficult to film then in other locations due to bathrooms tend to be smaller. But to get around this, we kept the door open and filmed from standing out of the room, and used mid/close up shots.

Mise-en-scene:

The first part of the house you see is the door which is unopened. The protagonist has her key out ready to go into the house this signifies that she was expecting the door to be locked so there must be someone in the house. As you go into the house there is just stereotypical items such as coats, shoes ornaments and pictures. This makes the audience relax as there is nothing out of the ordinary to scare them.

Costume:

The first male character in the school scene was dressed in high jeans with his t-shirt tucked into his jeans. This conotes he is a 'geeky' character also by the glasses he is wearing. We dressed the protagonist in a pink dress to show the audience that she is a girly, bitchy character. The antagonist was dressed all in black as he is the killer to show he is trying to hide himself. By having his hood up throughout the film was his trademark sign. Costume is a very important aspect as they are unsaid factors which affect how the characters are portrayed.

Props:
The 2 main props we used were a baseball bat, used to knock out the protagonist, and a knife. The knife was chosen as it’s a ‘phallic’ object and has inter-textual references to ‘I know what you did last summer’.

These are photos from the bedroom scene. We chose this room as the duvet and walls are white signifying pure which in contrast it was there opposite as the protagonist is cheating on the antagonist in the bed.

Overall, the locations we chose were good locations as they were easy to film in. We did encounter problems with the props though. As obviously we couldnt see the protagonist being hit over the head with a baseball bat so it was difficult to film it without actaully hitting her whilst looking realistic. We then decided to this footage off screen but we didn't see this as a problem as it has been used in other films such as Halloween.