Location

We are shooting all of our trailer in the college grounds, however this is quite a conventional thing to do. A lot of horror movies are based in or around a college or school, with the victims being young students. Some of the horror movies I have looked into are Scream, Final Destination 1-3, The Locker, and Whispering Corridors. The first two movies I have named may be familiar, however the last two may not. This is because the last two are asian films, The Locker is Japanese, and Whispering Corridors is Korean. Our trailer itself as I have already mentioned is based a lot around asian cinema and their types of horror in comparison to Western Horrors.

A school is a great place to film a horror movie because not only does it have a large amount of places to film, to the audience it is almost as if there is no where to hide because the school is so big, and it is therefore scarier and makes the movie more suspenseful as the audience never know where the killer will be. Another reason why high school horrors are popular are because the actresses are usually very beautiful and young and are therefore more appealing. People want to watch attractive young actors and actresses.

In Scream, a bunch of high school friends become ravaged by a killer called 'ghostface', in Final Destination it follows a group of high schoolers who have 'cheated death' and therefore it is after them one by one. The Locker movie is about a group of young couples who play with a strange locker after hearing it can make their dreams come true, however instead they unleash an evil female spirit who wants to kill them one by one. Whispering Corridors is about an all girls school that is being haunted by the ghost of one of the girls who committed suicide there. All of these high school horrors have one thing in common, and that is that the characters are young and are being killed off slowly. The suspense and fear of knowing that someone else is going to die soon is enjoyable to watch and surprising when it comes as a shock. It is also frightening because the main audience that watch these films are people of similar ages to those in the movies, giving them a reason to relate.

Below are some photographs of the locations we shot in.