Pictures of locations we will use

We have gone around different locations to search for the best ones for our film. We have thought about how the different locations we have chosen will look in our film, and how they fit the genre of psychological thriller.

This location is situated in Salford Quays. This location can look eerie when it is quite dark, and can also juxtaposition the strange happenings and the genre of the film as it looks so beautiful and pleasant when the sun is shining on it and the water is glistening. We also thought this could be aesthetically pleasing and therefore would be a good shot to use for the titles.


This alleyway is a typical normal area which an audience can easily relate to. However the scene is set in an alleyway which connotes a sense of a forbidden and fearful unknown in an normality which the audience will also relate to.


This park is perfect for our film, the swing scene will work really well as the swings are in the corner of the park, out of the way of any other people in the park. The paths leading to the park and the trees around it are perfect for the entrance of the main character.

Shot List

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1- long establishing shot of main character and location

2- handheld point of view shot

3- flashback- panning, long shot of the two friends walking to sit down by the water

4- longshot of friends sitting down by water

5- midshot high angle of second character on the floor dead

6- worms eye view close up of dead second characters face

7- extreme close up of main character's eye.

8- establishing long shot of main character entering the alleyway

9- tracking midshot (handheld) of main character from behind

10- high angle midshot of shadows

11- worms eye view, close up shot of shoe in puddle

12- midshot of main character looking at puddle

13- high angle point of view shot looking at shadow

14- midshot of main character looking around

15- point of view shot (handheld) at CCTV

16- midshot of main character looking around

17- high angle longshot (CCTV)

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18- high angle extreme longshot of main character walking up path to park

19- high angle longshot, side view of main character walking up to path

20- longshot of main character entering gate

21- close up of main characters hand opening the gate

22- midshot of main character entering gate

23- longshot of main character walking to swing

24- midshot of matt on swing from behind

25- midshot of main character on swing from a side view

26-midshot of main character on swing from behind

27- midshot of main character on swing from a side view

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28- midshot of main character on swing from behind

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Initial thoughts on main task

Psychological thrillers is a sub genre that incorporates a thriller with a dramatic psychological twist the characters, usually have to fight the constant battle in their mind of what is real and what is just their imagination. They tend to have incidental music which arises to create the suspense of an important moment. We have decided to that our genre will be a psychological thriller. We will start to look into psychological thrillers and use them to inspire what we will do in the planning, production and editing of our opening sequence.

We have decided that our main characters will be Matt Moran and Rapheal Jims, our first thoughts are that Matt's character will be followed by what appears to be a ghost and could be a hallucination of Rapheal's character , this is common in psychological thrillers like in Black Swan where she appears to be deluded and has several hallucinations.

In Black Swan the main character begins to feel very paranoid about different things which shows she is mentally ill. We would like to try and portray this in our film through the main character (Matt's character) through him believing that he is being followed.