Location,Props and Costumes Used

Here are the characters who are featured in the film. Their costumes reflect how people would see a teenager in this modern day. The conventions of a teenager in this day are hooded jackets, jeans and trainers. This is apparent in all of the cast that we have used simply because the film is about a group of teenagers, therefore they must all be dressed similar because of this.
Another aspect of this is that the group do not look prepared for their time out in the forest. This is also another stereotype of teenagers because they are seen as unprepared and lazy. Fitting the stereotype was very important in the shooting of this film trailer because it helps the audience to instantly establish a opinion about the characters, in particular to horror films, their vulnerability and ignorance.

 The character of the Unknown Figure was dressed in all black because little of this character is given away in the trailer. For this to stay unknown to the viewer, there must be no distinctive features about the character and this is why we chose to dress him in all black. Also the stereotypes that go along with the colour black are that they are not wanting to be seen easily and could be potentially dangerous. This is in contrast to the more brightly dressed teenagers.







Here is the location shot of the bridge where the teenagers first enter the forest. This is used as an establishing shot to show the viewer where the teenagers are coming from, and where they will be heading towards.

Here is another establishing shot used to show the general setting that the film will be set in. This shows the viewer that the general area in which this will be set in will be a wooded area. As well as this is, it also shows that the area is remote and there is little places to run to for help.

 Because the teenagers are going into the forest to camp, the idea that they will need sleeping bags is assumed. But without belongings such as these, it would not seem that they are going into the forest for the whole night, it would appear that they are just passing through. This is the reason why we needed these props.

This goes along with the above picture of the fact that the teenagers would need to have some sort of belongings with them to appear like that they are there for a long time. This is is why we chose to give all the characters a bag to carry with them into the forest.

Fake blood is used when the character 'Steve' is shown to be dead. This was not particularly used in the final edit of the trailer because of daylight reasons, but if we were to have kept in the footage of the close up scenes showing the blood, this would have been the prop to have been used.

Here is a picture of the fake knife that we used for the unknown figure character. The reason why we used this instead of a real knife are for safety and legal reasons. Therefore this was the only option we had if we wanted to include a small weapon for the unknown figure.










This picture here shows the wooded area where we chose to film. It also shows a tree that we used to climb up to get a higher angle shot of some scenes.

Here is a picture of the camp site that we used when the teenagers have just entered the wooded area. This is only used for a few scenes because they are alerted by the unknown figure very soon after arriving.

 This selection of photo's are of the run down house that we used for the parts where the group of teenagers are being chased and are forced to hide by the unknown figure. The reason why we chose this are to film in was because of the fact that the are looks old and derelict. These follow conventions of horror films because the places that they usually happen in are unappealing to the audience to make them not want to be in their situation.

Another key aspect about this area is that it is all overgrown which means that it has been out of use for a long time. Again this is another feature that is used a lot in horror films because it brings with it the idea that nobody goes there often, therefore no help for the group who are in danger in this location.

 Even though this area was in a completely different location to the rest of the places where we chose to film, I still feel that it fits in due to the fact that it is still surrounded by trees and has the same general 'creepy' feel to it.