Initial Ideas

Initial idea:

We have chosen Ashtead to be the location for our opening two minutes. We decided to choose this location because it is quite busy as you can see from the picture. As it is busy it means that no one would expect they are being followed, like the girl in our horror film is. This is effective as the audience will know what's going on but the characters won't. This will leave the audience feeling tense and scared for the victim as the victim doesn't have any idea what is going on. The main part of our film will be filmed in Ashtead common. As Ashtead common will be really quiet at night it will be good to contrast the two different locations, one being busy and the other being really quiet. This will emphasise just how alone our main character is when she decides to take a short cut through the woods. This is effective as it will show the audience that something is going to happen because it is dark and she is alone. Our starting location is Ashtead train station. This is where we will be first introduced to our antagonist. We decided to introduce are antagonist here because it is busy so no one would think that they are being followed. This means that when the girl chooses the walk through the woods it creates tension for the audience because they know something will happen.

Final idea:

We have now decided to film the whole of the two minutes based around Ashtead common rather than the victims house. This is because it will be more frightening for the audience if the murder takes place in a deserted woods rather than in the comforts of her own home.