Location Shots

The setting of our opening sequence is a vital aspect in the success of our piece, a setting can establish an environment or certain characteristics for example an alleyway with graffiti would be typically used for an action film, particularly an urban street life portrayal. 

We decided to use our school setting for our location, for our first idea when our group wanted to use the library to film some shots, this was impractical as we had to ask the librarian for permission before every occasion for our filming, and we only had a few hours to film there each-time. Also, because of the importance of our school library it was always unavailable as it was full of students. Unfortunately we didn't use any shots we took in the library however it gave us even better ideas, we found it difficult to film in the library because we planned to use very complicated shots at a particular time of day, instead we used our school hallway for the establishing shots of our introduction. We also used the theatre in our school for the haunting scene, we found the theatre the best place to film the haunting scene, where we actually see Yuki appear behind Natsuko, and also our school library to film Natsuko finding the comic for the first time randomly dropping down from a shelf. because of the spot lights and different lights the theatre provided.The space in the theatre was also very useful and wooden floor made it very easy to track and the wood gave off the tense loud roaring noise.

The equipment we used to film were a simple video camcorder, tripod and a swivel chair as it had wheels and was useful whenever we used it for tracking. The sound the swivel chair made was also very effective and useful in our introduction, as we weren't aware that the sound created tension in our introduction, we found this very useful as the sound the swivel chair gave off fitted in with our theatre scene.


We also used the technicians lightning box set up in the school theatre in order to create a scary and tense atmosphere. We found the lights very useful and effective because of the eerie atmosphere it created, this is also a major convention in japanese horror as low key lightning is emphasised with shadows and dark areas.