Locations

We were unsure for a while about where we would film our scenes. We all had an idea of how we would want each scene to look, but realistically didn’t know whether we could find anywhere that would give us what we wanted.
In the end we settled on four locations that we found to suit well with what we had in mind.



Cannock Chase was ideal for the first opening shots, with its vast landscape and extraordinary scenery it was a perfect way to open our thriller. We mainly liked using this location as our opening scene; because it doesn’t scream out that it is anywhere in particular. It could be anywhere in the world and makes the audience question the location they are seeing, so straight away draws the audience in.



The former St Georges physiatric hospital which is currently derilict was just what we wanted for our piece, as we were looking for a run down, creepy and dangerous looking building. And that was exactly what we got with this location. It was ideal because we were only intending to film the outside of the building, as the inside of it was out of bounds. This was the perfect location for ‘The Asylum’.

The third and forth locations were in Walton High School, we used a long corridor in one of the buildings which was useful to use. We had to adapt the corridor though to make it look like a run down building like St Georges, so we put huge dust sheets up and scrap paper all along the floor. We also had big industrial lighting doted around the area to create shadows.

The final location was the Walton High School Changing rooms, where we used the old shower room. This was perfect for our shooting scene as we wanted a plain tiled room to get some great shots of the victim tied up. The shower room really came up well on the final edited piece as it truly looked like a scary, run down place.