Our original idea for the piece is to only feature 2 characters which would go to the pub for the evening, visiting the pub would haunt them for that evening, and on the journey home, they would have some form of paranormal event, this would in turn tune into the Horror genre with the death of the two characters by weird and odd means, using the car as a way of their death. However we changed this story, we decided to add in a third character who would act as the murderer. We thought that this would be a sensible option because it would be easy to fit into the story line, but it would also at the same time make it more effective and a lot more scary, sort of like the final piece to put the puzzle together. After changing our story we had 3 main locations. One of them was the car and it moving, which provided some fairly good driving shots, the second location is The Chairmakers pub where the original story line was based around and the third location is the garage and yard for Harris', which backs onto Tom's House.
We decided to film the piece on my iPhone instead of using the traditional camera. Although some shots like a lot of the night shots and shots in the dark were fairly grainy and not too detailed I think it was a good choice, the quality was fairly good when the light was stable and sometimes the lack of definition played into our hands, making some shots slightly more creepy due to the lack of light. If I was to go all out I would have tried to source some lights and at least use a DSLR with filming capabilities, even use Go-Pro's for the front of the cars and to get shots that would look effective. The most obvious problem is that equipment at that standard is expensive, so for the equipment we had I think we have filmed some effective shots that fit the story line and all of the combined ideas.
-Ben
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