Location, Location, Location ..

For the location of our OTS we have thought about having it by an alleyway. We have chosen this as one of our possible locations because we thought that an alleyway could create the suspense that we want to capture. This could also be a good location because it will create an eerie atmosphere and make the audience tense which is what we want to do!

Also, another location that we have thought about using is mousehold woods. We want to use this as a location because it creates a brilliant atmosphere and there wont be much sound that we have to cut out in editing. I think this is the one we will use in the end because of the sounds that we don't want to capture and the atmosphere that we want to create.

Here are a few pictures I took when walking through alleyways to see which ones would be good to use in our filming of our OTS.

I thought that this alleyway would be good to use because it has that claustrophobic feel about it and I think that this would be able to capture everything that we wanted to capture. Even though this is by the road, which is a major disadvantage because we need complete silence there are brilliant shots that we could use. But, lighting is an issue and therefore we might have to use artificial lighting which loses the eerie feeling. We also would have to be very careful with artificial lighting because we don't want any equipment shown in the filming, obviously.

This alleyway I thought would be good to use because we wouldn't need any artificial lighting, depending on the time of day that we were going to shoot our OTS but it doesn't have that claustrophobic feel and eerie atmosphere that we want in our OTS. After much consideration, I don't think we will be using this for our OTS because of the reasons mentioned before.

The photo above, which is in mousehold, shows a location which we will most likely be using because it creates the eerie atmosphere brilliantly and there are lots of small spaces as well as large spaces to film in. The main disadvantage is that the lighting will be hard to capture because trees will shadow us from the light. Although, the noise is reduced to an absolute minimum and this could be used to our advantage, meaning that we don't have to edit any sounds out because the sound is reduced drastically in the woods. (website reference for the picture above - http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&tab=wl)