Location and casting information

After the group discussed about making a killer film instead of going down the route of zombies we had to think of a location. As Rememberance day was coming up we decided to link it to it so we could go out filming and hopefully get some good footage. As we live in Bodmin we wern't going to get a huge crowd of people like we would in London, however we decided to go to a small town in Cornwall where we knew people would be remembering. This gave us some key establishing shots for our film trailer, although we couldn't use any of the footage with children in it. Next we decided to have the main footage around an abandond house. As this would be to dangerous we filmed around one of our houses. This was so we could say the killer lived here. Using more establishing shots would show this in the film trailer. Our last location was in the middle of a woods. We decided to film this scene at night so we had a chnage of lighting, etc.

For our casting of the film trailer we knew we didn't need too many people in it, which helped us with the casting side of it. After much thinking we decided to star in our own film trailer. At first we thought it was unrealistic however we then figured that this happens in some major productions. For example Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. They both directed "Hot Fuzz" and stared in the film, so we decided to do the same in ours.

We had many other ideas of places to film before we choose the ones above. Firstly we thought about using Bodmin Jail as this could be seen as a spooky place where it would be easy to establish a horror film. However we decided against this idea as it would have been hard to film there with all the people about. Another idea was Bodmin Moor however we went against this as well as we thought it would be to open for a killer horror film. Finally we thought we could film in a corn field, this would have made it easy to hide the killer. However there was a problem with this as well, as when we went to start filming it wasn't the time of year for corn to be growing putting an end to the idea.