Influence of Production

Location

The majority of horror films are set in quiet locations where there is not many other things going on, this may be an abandoned house or in our case a woodland. A film that inspired us to use this location was 'The Cabin in the Woods' this film also uses a woodland for its location and targets the same target audience as us. We felt that by watching the film we got ideas of how to target a male dominate audience. Also the location of 'The Conjuring' made us consider the time of day to film and what weather conditions we wanted. On the front cover of the film there is a thick fog which is only slightly revealing the house behind it. Although we didn't film in the fog, as it would have been too unpredictable, we did film part of our opening the dark/dusk to see the different effects that it would create.

The costumes of our actors were not influenced by a specific film, in many films within this genre the antagonist is kept as a mystery in dark clothing with their face covered. An example of this can be seen in the film 'Scream' the antagonist is covered in order to hide their identity and thus building the tension. We wanted our victim to see more vulnerable and innocent hence why Hannah was dressed in light clothing. In our opening we intended to give the antagonist the most prevalence in order to build the tension.




When we were planning our opening, as a group, we discussed multiple different locations which we both agreed should be in a remote place where there is no people/cars around. This sort of location helps to build tension as it presents a fear of the unknown. If the victim dies in this location no one would be aware for a long time.
The characters we included are very stereotypical as the girl is very young and innocent but finds herself in a difficult situation, this is inspired by multiple different films.