Location Shots Revised and Lighting

 

We were concerned with the lighting for our production and so we decided as a group to shoot all of the video in the daytime even though most of it would be set at night. We chose to do this because the quality of the video would be much better and more visible for the audience if we simply filmed it in day and used a 'day-to-night' camera effect on our editing software. With this the location for the shoot changed as the street lighting was no longer necessary and chose a street near a local church. The stone walls lobviously fit in the time period set as they belong to the church. We can also, if needed to, film the car against the bavck wall rather than parked next to the others to avoid ruining the scene and including modern cars.

This location will fit the conventions of a thriller because of the abandoned feeling that this scene will produce when a night effect has been put on the footage and the shots of a lone car parked outside a church (and graveyard). In the framing all the audience will see is the car and the abandoned street. This will create the effect of making the protagonist isolated from the world. They will have no help escaping the assassin. There is also a gate separating the path from a river. This reinforces our wish to include elements from Film Noir. The angular structure to the gate gives a tense feeling to area which is only emphasised by the graveyard to the right of the path. Not only this but we hope to record a shot looking through this gate again reinforcing the Film Noir feel.