3. A House
This location is effective as it tests the security of the family home, connoting
a place where individuals are meant to feel secure and sheltered. By creating
a horror film with the stock location being a house automatically the audience
are on guard, and this will lead them to feeling paranoid within their own
homes proving the horror had fulfilled its goals. An intruder or spirit to be
thought of within a household is unspeakable and not something the audience
will willingly address. Finally the use of a house plays on the current
audience’s fears, modernising the horror.
4. A hospital
A hospital is a place that the public go in order to get better, so if a supernatural force
were to take over the hospital there would be no alternate place to go in order to
receive treatment, This can reinforce just how horrific the idea of possession is.
Although many supernatural movies do not use this location as the stock location, it is
always a location that the protagonist is led to. Once again a hospital connotes security
as it is a place that individuals go to get better, so for a force to disrupt normally would
cause anxiety and fear both emotions that are goals for horrors to bring amongst the
audience. There is also the idea that evil be created within anyone,
so if individuals were in hospital and suddenly a
supernatural force were to take over someone on their
ward the fear levels
would be on an extreme high, which could in hindsight
make the audience
fear for their safety.
5. Or an isolated setting
An isolated warehouse/house/setting has many connotations the main one being
danger due to the having no one around if anything bad were to happen. Other
connotations are vulnerability and loneliness. Having a horror set in an isolated setting
would create a sense of discomfort to the audience and they know that this is not a
wise idea and typical for horrors. The reason why we have chosen not to use an
isolated setting as the stock location is due
to the audience ofthe21stcentury being
aware of all the cliché's and we want to
keep them an isolated would assume the
worst and most likely be correct.
6. A school
A school conveys a safe environment where the future are being formed. A schools is
usually guarded, and a secure setting, allowing parents to go about their day worry
free. The school empowers all of the characteristics that formed for the house,
hospital and isolated setting, therefore making it the most effective. By having a school
as our stock location, worry for the target audience will be formed as they will either
be in education or have children, allowing the film to succeed on our goals; to fright.
Especially as the audience will then place themselves within the characters shoes.
Although a school may be cliché, there will also be elements of surprise within the
narrative, that promise to keep the audience on edge, further reinforcing that this
setting will work best for our movie’s narrative.
7. A Bridge
A bridge denotes worry, as there are many clichés with bridges a main one being
suicide. Our narrative plays on this, as this does in fact take place to cause our movie’s
disruption. However this seems to not feature in many supernatural film’s, allowing us
to bring an element of realism, in addition to adding an edgy sequence that has not
been done before.
8. An isolated setting such as the house in The Amityville
horror:
A hospital/ mental institution in The devil inside:
A house in Insidious:
9. The location that really inspired us as group was Sorority Row,
although they are not within a school the movie creates a
cult like feel, which are formed in schools/ universities
reinforcing our decision.
