Film Trailer Planning: Location

House where the boy used to live with his parents: This is one of the sets that we are shooting at it is one of  the room above the shop where manny works and therefore goes there quite often. this will be used to shoot the footage. We are going to shoot the part at the start where there is a flashback and this is where the audience will know that the parents of the child are dead and that he is being fostered. This sets up the narrative for the rest of the film as he ends up running away to where his parents are buried and this is where he is going to change. I think it is a good setting to use as it looks quite bare and the window gives a small amount of light. Manny has also said some of the rooms are small and therefore she will be able to make them dark, this would make them seem trapped. This would help to portray the right mood immediatly at the start of the trailer. The genre of this film has been clear from other trailers as they have included dark settings throughout the whole trailer. The light coming through the window could be used to connote the boys innocence at the start of the trailer as he hasn't been converted yet. When i researched the film the others the setting was a old house that had no proper lighting.

Graveyard Where the boy goes to and gets "changed":

This is one of the settings that we were initially planning on filming in when we started thinking about the storyline. We thought this would effective if it was filmed in the dark as we needed a dark setting as on other trailers everything is filmed in the dark so it looks spooky and so that it connotes fear and danger. the graveyard itself has connotations of death and the afterlife fitting in with the theme of demons and evil spirits. Manny emailed the council to ask if we could use this place near to where she lives, to film but they did not allow us permission unfortunately therefore we are either going to find another setting to film or include more footage in the trailer of the settings we have, as in the film trailer of insidious it focuses ont he house setting and most shots in the trailer have furniture in the background to create the sense that it is a family that is being haunted. We may choose to this as like insidious a lot of the footage is focused on settings to do with children and reflects their nature. 

The settings that we have decided to use so far are :
The Forest
The room above Manny's shop