Location

We visited a many different locations in order for us to find the best setting for our opening sequence.
We took pictures of the all different places and then as a group decided which locations we thought would be most appropriate for our film.

The majority of our filming takes place in a small dark room, however it is just one of the walls
of the room that will be seen on video;

As you see from the picture below our first thought was to use a plain wall from a room of someones house. Although it would have been convenient to use it someones house it was important that we found a setting that fitted all the asoects we were looking for. The lighting and colours, were not exactly what were looking for and therefore it was not be suitable for our film.

Our next idea was to use a room from a local block of offices, however the only rooms available may not have been large enough to cater for the types of camera shots we intended to use.

Finally we found a reasonable size room at school that would again give us easy access and was also a good match to the kind of setting we had talked about earlier on in the project.

Our second main setting for our opening sequence is for our news reporter. Again our first instinct was to put a table and chair in front of a white wall at one of our homes however after a quick screen test we found this too wouldn't be suitable for our sequence as is just didn't look professional enough.

Instead we have chosen to use our media classroom at school as there is a drop down projector screen will work perfectly for the background and the large desk in front makes it look much more realistic.

In rest of our scenes it is made up the flash backs which kidnapper is experiencing. To film this we simply used the houses and gardens of in which our actors/actresses live. We will also use the local parks and forests for any other shots that may need to be taken.