Other Planning Material - Location Photos

Location has played a very important part in our horror trailer, especially as in the final trailer we have used two completely different locations; Sabrinas house and Fritton Woods.

After we had settled on our group idea we started brainstorming locations that we could use to shot our trailer in.  When we came up with the idea of a house party, we started thinking about scary things that could happen at the house party and we thought of seeing a 'dead' body floating on top of a swimming pool or a hot tub that the party was located around.  We used Sabrinas house because she had a hot tub and a large area of space for the party scene and because we were all able to get there.

Next, we started trying to find rural, isolated, woodland areas that were close to Sabrinas house.  In our group and with the help of our teacher we came up with the idea of using Winterton woods and we used Google Images and Google Maps to help us to plan our shooting there.  Unfortunately it was impractical for us to use Winterton woods as our location because of the distance and issues within people within the group, such as the cost of transport and dates and times.

As a compromise we chose to use Fritton woods, a woodland area that was much closer to both college and Sabrinas house.  This wood, in my opinion, worked out really well because the shorter distance meant that we could spend much more time filming, especially as we visited on two different ocassions with different groups of people and because Fritton has lots of unique features, such as the bridge that was used in the final horror shot of me being dragged under a bridge.