11. Location Scouting (Report)

10. Finding Filming Location

On the 21st January we went location scouting around the Ari district (nearby Eye's house). At the start we had planned to film at Eye's old house, however the arrangements of the furniture in the room was not what we had in mind as well as the house being too new looking. Using a room at Eye's house also meant that we weren't able to film the peephole shot. As a result we looked for local hotels and decided to spread out filming and location scouting over two days as this would allow us to explore more location options.

Eye edited a vlog which I filmed during the day with my Gopro:

Here was one of the other hotels we looked at:

Pradipat hotel : 900 Baht/night

Elizabeth Hotel : 1000+ Baht/night

The hotel we filmed at:

Bangkok Condotel : 1000 Baht/night

We stumbled upon this hotel while we were on our way to Elizabeth Hotel. When we arrived by taxi the Elizabeth Hotel exterior looked newer than we had expected, we immediately realised that the interior would be new too meaning a higher price of stay which we didn't want. We decided to look nearby for smaller hotels and we found Bangkok Condotel.

9. Our schedule

Eye created a schedule for location scouting day and or filming day. This made sure that we finished our film opening by the deadlines.

Location scout: 21/01/17
Filming day: 22/01/17

The timetables which Eye made.

8. Risk Assessment

7. Diegetic and Non-Diegetic sounds

Here are the sounds which was chosen after a discussion:

Non-Diegetic music:

Diegetic music:
Paper scribbling

Paper cutting

Water droplets 

6. Casting

Our initial actress requirements were:

• Hispanic: we referenced from thriller genre films such as Mama(2013) and Julia's Eyes(2010) in which we found that hispanic actresses and actors were very successful 
• Thin: this would make it easier for us to enhance the bone features for the backchat where we see the spine
• Long haired: provides a sense of secrecy in shots where hair partially covers the character's face 

Our chosen cast:

Tailia Boonkul (Tan)

Unfortunately Tan was very busy with school work during the week we were filming. As a result we spontaneously had to change our actress to Claire.

Claire Lu (Claire)

Claire kindly stepped into to play our main character as she has 2 out of 3 of our requirements. We also decided that using an asian actress would give a unique feel to our opening.

5. Inspiration : Fonts and credits

Here we found examples of fonts in film opening of both we liked and dislikes to see what elements of the different types works and which didn't. By doing so we are able to adapt elements which we liked into our own film opening.

Examples we disliked: 
Silence of the lambs 

• White boarder around the text makes it become cartoon like.
• Bold, does not blend in with the background
• The position of the text mean the intention was for it to standout

Examples we enjoyed.

Interstellar

• The spaceship toy has connotations of what the film may be about
• The text blends in with the colours present in the shot.
• The font which we assume is Linotype Didot® is crisp and clear. Which provides an elegant feeling.

Westworld(HBO)

• Monochromatic
• Clean and crisp
• Close up shots builds up to the overall image
• Simple font - goes along with the theme of the film opening/film