Location Scouting

My Bathroom 

This bathroom has the white, sterile feel as most of the furniture is white and the tiles add a creepy feel we are aiming to achieve. This bathroom however doesn't have the luxury of the establishing shot of the whole bathroom because it is on an 'L' shaped design. The mirror could be useful as well, to do the blood in however is smaller than Scarlett's and therefore may be harder to write longer names into. The sink however is useful for the final shot as it all matches with the bath dn the other taps, also it is large enough to fit many names in. The bath is also useful as it is black and white and has the victorian feel, adding history and therefore complying with some of the thriller conventions.

Scarlett's Bathroom

This bathroom is good as it has an intimacy element as the bath is enclosed by the walls. the shape of the bath is also interesting and could be used to our advantage as there would be more room for our actor to move around. The two sinks could be used to our advantage as they could be used effectively to integrate the credits. The long mirror, although may be hard to film could look effective with a blood smear across it. The wooden feel is nice as it suggests an older house and therefore more likely to harbour spirits. The shelves would also look effective is their contents were messed around and therefore giving the sense of intrusion.

However the image we want to create a more sterile and white, therefore the wood back setting would interrupt the idea of complete sterility and over clean. Within this vision we also imagined a more victorian or older style bath, adding to the sterile idea.

Conclusion

i think we will use my bathroom as it has more of the sterile feel to give the audience the sea that this actor has, in a way, ruined this clean bathroom. the mirror in Scarlett's bathroom, would be a better fit however, we would want to keep with the same look and miss en scene. The wooden style in Scarlett's bathroom would fit well if the location of the film was in a cabin or an old house, however to highlight the possessed nature the more modern style suits our vision.

Test Shoot

This is a compilation video of our test shots. We experimented with the bathroom shots and shots that may be more difficult to produce, such as the in bath ones , where we discovered the cameraman has to be in the bath with the actor. this also raised health and safety questions because the camera will be right over the bath and there is risk that it can fall in. The mise-en-scene is very important for the mirror shots as we discovered we needed to place a black object behind the camera as the reflection because otherwise it is hard to read the words on the mirror in condensation. With the first mirror shot, we worked out the correct angle to obtain full view of the words that would be written in blood, with the tiles in the background. In these test shots, we also played around with editing such as desaturating the colour to make it more black and white and therefore more creepy.