Since the main character in our film will be a photographer, ideally we’d like to film in a dark room, as that would also have a connection to our film title. After doing some research, my partner Kitty and I have found various places in London which hire out Dark Rooms to the public. The Photographers Gallery and The Camera Club both have dark rooms but have no information on their websites about weather the public can use them or not. It would be worth a try to go in, as they are very close to school and ask if we could use a dark room for school purposes. Photofusion and Rapid Eye both rent out dark rooms to the public. (See next slide)

Dark Rooms in London we could possibly hire out…

For the opening of our trailer we’d like establishing shots of the location our character Lux, could be working at (photographing). Our first choice is to do this is in a park (Regent’s park), and we’d like to film it in sunny weather (pathetic fallecy to show everything is initially ok with her)

Following on from the establishing shot, we’d like to show Lux doing normal day-to-day activities, like shopping with her camera round her neck. We thought a good location for this would be Portobello Market. We’d then contrast her

On the chasing scenes between Lux and the mystery man from her dreams we thought of various ideas including, tubes, Westminster bridge and alley ways around Marylebone area (facilitates times when we can film it as its near school). A point to remember with these locations is that we need to ask if filming in tube stations is permitted.

In our trailer we would like to use an over the head shot where the character of Lux is looking into the mirror. She is trying to convince herself she is not crazy after her accident. She will look in the mirror where everything seems normal, open the bathroom cabinet, but when closing the door, the guy from her dreams will appear in the background of the mirror. This type of shot is a very typical convention in horror films as mirrors are commonly used as iconography, and my partner and I this will be the perfect shot to have at the end after the trailer credits, to build even more climax and persuade audiences to go watch the film.

In order for the audience to feel very familiar and connected to our main protagonist Lux, we would like to include in our trailer some shots of her house/flat where she would have her dark room. Not only are houses common settings for horror films, but will be an effective location to film scenes of building suspense. An idea my partner Kitty and I had would be to film a shot of Lux looking out of a glass window in my apartment, since I have a balcony which overlooks the Thames. This would also correspond with our stylistic idea to have a very London-based film.