Planning - Settings

We have two prime settings for our trailers, with two other settings which are shown briefly. Our main setting is an abandoned barn in which the four strangers are brought together by a mysterious text from people they thought they could trust. The majority of our trailer is based here as it creates confusion and increases tension due to being a location that the audience can not relate to. This is effective for our trailer as it allows for us to confuse our demographic in order for us to create the effect of mystery.

We have countered this by using a familiar location in the school. This offers the audience comfort as they will be able to relate with the characters as they have been in similar situations themselves. This will give them more of an audience pleasure as if we based the entire film at the barn they would feel separate from the film and it would not have the desired effect.

Our two other locations are my house, and an empty street in which a car scene is filmed. The house is used for the same reason as the school in order to create a relationship between the audience and the characters, and the street is used for the same reason as the barn in order to create mystery.