Trailer Planning - Settings

When looking through our research as a group we came up with a list of possible places that a thriller would be set these were:

1.Ocean
2. House
3. Woods
4. Grave Yard
5. Desert
6. Hotel
7.Island

We chose to use House and Woods as this would be easiest and we think that they would have the best effect when used together.

First we began looking at choices for our house, this had to be either one of ours or a friends house, it also had to be fairly remote so as we didnt get complaints of noise. We had three main options for our house:

House 1

House 1 has a classic victorian style to it, this old house look is often associated with the paranormal making it suited to our genre. Becasue the house is detatched we could film it not showing the houses on either side giving the isolated effect we need for our trailer, obviously we would still have to warn the neighbours about the potential noise on the days we shoot the trailer so as not to upset them. The house aslo has a garage attached which we may decide to use in the trailer as they are often associated with thrillers as hiding places or places where people get trapped. This house is also situated right next to one of the choices for our woods, this would make it very easy to film as we wouldnt need to travel to our other location.

House 2

House 2 has a more homely feel to it than house 1 which could be useful for creating a false sense of security for the audience at the beginning of our trailer. This house is a detatched house, we would have to be considerate of the neighbours with times of filming. This house also has a small driveway, this makes it very close to the road and takes away the sense of isolation which is usually key to thiller locations. Altough this house is close to another one of our wood locations we would still have to walk there about 10 minutes with all the equipment and cast.

House 3


We then had to choose the woods that some scenes would be shot in. These had to again be remote becasue of noise, have the right effect for the scenes we are going to shoot in the woods and we had to make sure they would also be safe for us to film in at night. Again we had three main options:

Woods 1

These woods with this misty effect look very paranormal which if perfect for our genre, however they are very open and we think we want a more enclosed location within the trees to make it darker and more claustrophobic.

Woods 2


Woods 3