WEEK 4 – w/c 04/10/10

Location, Location, Location

This week i have been concentrating on the location and scenery that will be in my trailer. In terms of location there was some disagreement between me and my partners because while i wanted to portray a gritty urban underbelly of horror, my group did not want to delve into the "hood" aspect of the trailer to that extent.

The first scene that is going to feature in my trailer is a graveyard where a group of gang members are burying a body and with it their secret. The media technology that i applied to my project this week is the film "Sorority Row" which is a 2009 slasher film because my thoughts for my trailer were similar to the plot for the movie however my idea challenges the movie in the fact that the  body in my trailer is not being thrown down a mine shaft but rather buried in a graveyard and unlike sorority row that revolves around college girls, mine follows a group of male gang members.

Originally i did not know how i would go about, going to a graveyard to bury a body but when i thought about it carefully i decided that i would do a pan over the grave yard and then find a patch of normal land to dig up so that it looks like the grave yard is the plot of land that is being dug up.

section of the trailer that i wish to recod is at a train station where the killer is at the train station and is noticed by one of the victims but when the train passes in front of the killer, he is no where to be seen.

New Entry: I did record this part of the trailer however due to the low quality of the camera that was used the footage came out blocky and there was multiple stripes covering it, rendering the footage useless.

Location, Location, Location Pt. 2

The locations that I predominantly used for my recording is the Heygate Estate & Aylesbury Estate in South East London. The Heygate Estate is being prepared to be demolished in 2015 and therefor has been emptied apart from a few low-rise council houses. Due to the lack of inhabitants the estate has been neglected and been covered from head to toe in graffiti.

I passed the estate everyday on my way to college and thought that it would be a great location to record on, however it seems that i was not alone in these thoughts since because of the housing estate being the epitome of urban decay, hood films among other films and shows have been shot there e.g. Fallout, Shank, The Bill, Etc. I did not know this however until it i saw the estate's wikipedia entry and then reviewed these films and recognised the areas.