Location Scouting

Today I wrote about our location scouting for the whole group, I incorporated both our ideas as a group and my own personal ideas. For our film one of the locations includes my house, both the outside and inside, but for different reasons. The outside being used as Mr Jones' house and my spare room being used as Katie's bedroom. I have taken pictures of both the spare room and the outside of my house to be used for the 'Location Scouting' post, I have yet to upload the exterior pictures of my house.

Information on location scouting can be seen on the group blog.

Casting and Auditions

I helped to film the casting and auditions in a drama room we had ask to borrow during a lunch time. We had already spoken to people who wanted to audition and had set up a time for them to come along. I feel we had a range of talented actors but it was very clear from the start who we wanted to choose for our main characters. In the end all auditionees were able to act in our film in some way, whether is was Mr Jones' friends or the extra school pupils we had initially needed.

The video from our casting and auditions can be seen on the group blog.

Poster Idea

Last week, I introduced the idea to create a poster that would be put up around the school to advertise our auditions. To begin with the group were cautious of the idea as it was already being done by many other groups in our class. To encourage the idea, I suggested examples such as myself drawing out a poster and photocopying. In the end, the group as a whole decided a poster advertising our auditions would be good idea.

Research for Target Audience

For the past two days I have researched into different stalking films from over the decades. I posted this on the group blog with more to come. I have researched recent films and much older films, also one film that wouldn't be classed as a horror film to some, but includes cases of stalking.
I did this research purely to help us decide on our target audience for our final film. Sophie also researched film classifications whilst Jo created a questionnaire for the public to fill out. Here is the research I did:

'Scream' was created in 1996 and it was the masked-killer film that revitalized the stalker/slasher genre. From this example you can see that usually in the subgenre 'stalking' that it is usually a male character that is used as the antagonist. The antagonist in this particular film isn't only a stalker he is also a killer, this is not always the case in the genre. Below is the synopsis of the film and also the trailer.
'Sidney has more than her share of teenage angst to cope with. Her mom was murdered a year ago, her dad is perpetually away on business, and her boyfriend Billy is pressuring her to go all the way. As if that weren't enough, a brilliant serial killer has begun to terrorize Sidney's quiet hometown, including her highschool classmate Casey Becker.'


An older film from the 1970's is 'Taxi Driver' released in 1976. This particular film, again a male antagonist is used as the stalker throughout the film. The film begins with Travis Bickle, a lonely, unstable vet with insomnia taking a job as a taxi driver to pass the nights. After the rejection of a love interest, Bickle is driven to violent thoughts and an intense physical training regime to prepare for a war on the moral decay of society. Bickle ends up trying to kill himself and to also assassinate a senator. This particular film follows the conventions of a typical stalking horror. Below is the trailer from the film.

You can see our target audience information on the group blog.