Evaluation of our Location : Evaluation

Every film has a suitable location to match the genre of the film. As our film is about a couple moving to a new house, the main location we used was a normal nuclear family house so audiences could relate to it as much as possible. Another location we used was the woods, this was done to give the film a creepy atmosphere as the woods are very quiet and isolated.

Pro's

• The best thing about having a typical house as the main location is that audiences can relate to it. This will make audiences feel that the safest place they think they have which is their home isn't that safe after all, it makes them afraid of something that they are so familiar with.
• We looked at all the houses of our group members and found that one of the members houses had a swamp behind his garden, this we thought would be the best location to film at as the house was easy to access to film in and a few swamp/garden shots would make it even more creepy.

Cons

• Our film is about a couple moving to a new house and the house we filmed in didn't look like the couple had just been moved in, we were unable to remove stuff from the house to try and get this effect. We didn't have sufficient funds to rent a house to try and get a new house effect.
• As we couldn't rent a house we couldn't film whenever we wanted due to there being people living in the house we filmed in, therefore are time management wasn't to great.

How we could improve?

The main thing we could improve on is the house we used, if we had the funds we could have made the house look empty and show that the couple are just moving in more effectively. If it wasn't for the titles used in the trailer the audience wouldn't know that the couple are just moving in.

We could have saved a lot of time using a house that we could access at all times, but on the other hand we wouldn't have got a creepy look that we obtained using the location we did.