On Friday myself and the girls in my group sat around brainstorming different locations where we could film and ideas, as we did receive an email from our local castle letting us know that we would be restricted with filming in most areas of their ground. We were quite sad about this but we decided to all just view it as a learning curve, so straight away we began to reconsider where we could film.
We wanted our location not to be stereotypical for our thriller genre, we wanted somewhere that wouldn't obviously be perceived as a 'scary' place. That is when we came up with the idea of filming in our local Cinema! It is a small cinema with just one screening room and naturally has quite a creepy vibe, perfect for our short film! This location would be interesting as we are already breaking thriller conventions as nobody would expect something bad to happen in a small-town cinema.
Jasmin has taken the role on of contacting the cinema to enquire about us filming there. Fingers crossed they will be just as excited about it as us. Trying to get access to film in public places is seeming to have its obstacles, however I think that we will eventually find the right place to film and it has actually helped us to develop new, exciting ideas that we may not have considered before.
In the meantime I have decided to do a bit of research into the history of our local cinema to see if I can find anything strange to evoke storylines for our short film. Here is what I have found so far...
The cinema was built on the site of the nineteenth-century town market and museum, and at one time the old town gaol had also stood there.
This instantly caught my attention!! It couldn't get any creepier! Perhaps we could use this history to promote our film and create a buzz? We are still discussing narrative but I definitely love this location and think that we could be on to something!
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