Our Thriller Shooting Locations

Below are our locations where we are going to shoot our thriller. It is mainly based inside a house so a lot of them are corridors etc. Alongside the picture is a brief description of why these are being used.

Rule of thirds: 2 thirds staircase and 1 third hallway.
Low angle shot, connotes power and authority.
Hallway acts as a vanishing point.

An ominous looking dark doorway can connote to nightmare, mystery, and the journey that one of the characters will have to take.

Wet cobblestone pathways connote to mystery and nightmare. Such thriller conventions as this are frequent in the mise-en-scene in films like Carol Reed's 'The Third Man' released in 1949.





A high angle shot implies power and authority. In this shot you get this effect and also it could be argued that this is a point of view shot out of something like a bedroom window. The wet cobbled streets connote corruption and the dark slippery acts which occur only at night.

The room at the end of the corridor acts as a vanishing point. The fact that the room at the end is dark and the rest is light connotes that at the end there is danger and risk but also the unknown. The mirror on the wall to the left together with the lighting could imply the characters personality. This being that they are usually considered a bright and cheery person but underneath there is corruption and evil.

The shot of a messy bedroom powerfully reflects a persons lifestyle. This bedroom could imply that the person is hectic and unorganised. It could also relate to being rash with decisions which in the underworld of criminality could get you into a very tight situation.

A high angle shot down a flight of stairs represents intimidation and looking down on people. At the top of the stairs the lighting seems rather dark and gets lighter towards the bottom. This could represent danger going down into safety.

Here is a demonstration of chiaroscuro lighting. This lights up the whole mise-en-scene from one light source. There are also the wet streets similar to those in "The Third Man" representing nightmare and confusion. To the left of the frame there is the ominous white van with no markings on it. White vans can look very sinister because they can contain anything but also white is the colour of purity but in thriller films they are not used for good purposes. An example of this is in the opening scene of Terry Winsor's "Essex Boys" released in 2000.