My First thoughts of where to film was to find the scariest place I could find! So I thought about filming at an ex-mental asylum. A friend told me of one called Cane Hill. When researching the place, I thought it was ideal because it had been run down for some time with natural decay and arson. But as you can see by the pictures it is now fenced off so that the public can not go in. Here are some pictures to show you how good,(but very scary!) it would have been to film there.
Therefore, I had to look at alterative places to film and after visiting a selection of local places, I sort listed three churches.
Planning for the film
As I was filming a horror film, one of the questions I asked myself is ‘What makes people scared?’. I came up with the dark, the dead and shadows etc. So the location was very important to get right. Once I had found the location, I though about my characters. I wanted my main character to be an adult and to look as if he was from a mental asylum. I didn’t want him to say much as I wanted his character to come out by what he was wearing and by using his facial expressions. I dressed him in a dressing gown to demonstrate that not everything was in order with my character as why would he be wandering around a graveyard in a dressing gown? To make the character look even more out of place, I gave him a teddy bear.
For the extras in the film, I just wanted them to be dressed in an everyday way, so I asked them to turn up as if they were going out for a walk. I didn’t tell them much about the plot apart from they would be walking through a grave yard and just to react if anything unusual happened! I also asked them to bring a torch along as it would be dark. I didn’t want to tell them much more as I wanted their reactions to be really realistic. On arrival, they did look a bit apprehensive, which was exactly what I was looking for. I also kept my main character and the extras apart so I could capture their immediate reactions.
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