Thriller Locations

First Location: CNS girls toilets

For the very first scene in our opening, we'll will be using the students toilets at CNS as makeshift public toilets. Orignally we were going to use the public topilets in long stratton but came to the conclusion that the combination of the geographical location and the fact that filming in public toilets is difficult because of legal and spatial reasons means that we decided to film the scene in the toilets at school. We decided to use the girls toilets as the majority of our group were female and so it made sense for us to use the girls toilet. There are three female toilets at CNS and having visited all three we decided to use the largest one. In addition to having the largest space possible to work with it also had plain white walls which would be perfect for adding a bleak, grimy look to the scene. However whilst the space and look of the toilet's walls were positives there were also negatives to consider and problems to overcome. The taps for example were not ordinary twist taps and instead needed to be pushed down to work. Whilst this initially seemed a problem as we were intending to have a close up of the main character turning the tap on, in time we decided that with careful hand positioning this detail could be overcome. As well as this many modern day toilets use these kind of taps and so if it couldn't be overcome it would add to the reality of our product. Another problem with the toilets was the fact that it would be busy at times. However it was a lot more accessible and easy to vacate than genuine public toilets and did possess any of the legal problems filming in public toilets had and so we were happy to use this location.

Second Location: Chapelfield Gardens Bandstand

Originally we were hoping to film
somewhere like here: The Old Bakery Cafe

Chosen location: Band Stand 

The scene of meeting between the two characters changed drastically overtime. Initially the plan was to use a cafe or small bar for the meeting and have the two characters sit across a table from one another. We began by contacting cafe's and bars we knew of asking whether it would be possible to film there. While we contacted around 8 places only 3 replied and they all refused us. It quickly became apparent that it would be incredibly difficult to film in a cafe or bar and so we had to alter our location. After discussion we decided that the transaction scene could happen outside on a picnic bench or park bench. We decided that scoring in Norwich would be our best option and so we did so. Having scouted many locations we finally settled on the band stand in Norwich's Castle Meadow. While it was completely different from our original idea, the space was ideal and it was not likely to busy. The positives of this new location was that there was ample space for filming, it was in a central location and so could be got to quickly and  that it was not likely to be busy or full of people. However the disadvantages were that it was outside and so noise could be an issue; there was a possibility people could be in there when we wanted to film and it would not fit the theme of our thriller as well as average cafe. However as we knew that cafes and bars were not an option we decided that the band stand was our next best option and decided t use it for the transaction scene. The space of the band stand was excellent and allowed for a variety of interesting shots and this , we decided, would lend itself to our film.

Third Location: Underpass

Chosen location: underpass

Finally the final chosen location of the death scene also changed a lot from our initial ideas. Our original plan was to have the death scene happen either in a cobbled alley way in the old part of the city or near a church where there was intense ground lighting that we could use. Having scouted these locations out we decided that neither of these would fit our thriller and would instead give the death scene more of a film noir style. This is because the alleyways we found were very stylistic and did not fit with the other gritty locations and the church was again too stylistic and did not fit with the our other chosen locations. As well as this, because of their central locations, these places were nearly always busy and getting an isolated death scene would be difficult. Instead we chose to use an underpass near the outskirts of the city. The underpass had many great positives: it was lit with very bright, intense lights which we could utilise when filing, allowing us to experiment with shadows, it was rarely busy as a result of its locations on the outskirts of the city and it was heavily grafted adding to the realistic, gritty locations we had already chosen. While it was difficult logistically for us to get to, this was the only negative and we conclude that it was the perfect location for our death scene.