Booking Venue's

From our research into our target audience, the responses we got about what they find frightening/scary, suggested locations such as church, graveyards and empty and scary looking houses. For this reason we included such things in our storyline and built our horror trailer ideas on the responses we got from the audience questionnaires.We also wanted to make our trailer look realistic and professional, as we saw from our research into real horror trailers these locations were very common and were used a lot in real horror trailers therefore we decided to use such locations.  Due to the fact that the locations we have picked wouldn't be easily accessible for students or filming, we had to research locations around us that are similar to the ones we would see in horror movies/trailers, we then had to email the locations to see if we are able to gain permission to film at times when these locations are not in use by others. Below are some of the things we did in order to gain permission to film at certain places.

OAK HOUSE MUSEUM (scary/haunted looking house)

While searching for locations we found an old and haunted looking house which would be very suitable for our horror film/trailer as we wanted to have a haunted looking house. We then emailed the manager of the oak house museum to ask for permission to film. As a result we gained permission to film in the museum from the manager at a time when the museum is closed to the general public. 

When we were given permission to film in the oak house museum we were asked to fill out some forms before our filming date, we also had to provide a risk assessment for the filming crew and our schools liability insurance. Below are the copies of the things we had to provide.



Risk Assessment:

Filming request forms:

Copy of liability insurance:

ST.PETER'S CHURCH (scary, dark looking church and graveyards)
For some of our scary scenes when the characters appear to be running away or getting tortured we wanted to include scenes in a graveyard and a dark church as from our audience responses we established that these usually feature in real horror films and would scare the audience and give a professional effect to the trailer. We searched on the internet ad went out to see some churches to see if we will find one that looks like what the audience would expect to see in a horror film/trailer. While searching we found St.peters church which we then emailed to gain permission to film in and around the premises as it also had a graveyard outside the church which was ideal for our filming ideas.

We gained approval from the vicar and were given a suitable date we would be able to film in the church while it was empty.

<<< Here is the email we got back from the church confirming the date and time we can use the church.






ST.AUGUSTINE'S CHURCH (funeral scenes)
Due to the fact we will have short funeral scenes at the start of our trailer to introduce our story, in order to make the funeral look realistic we have to film our characters in the church, mourning and making speeches about the deceased in order for the trailer to be professional and realistic. We decided to film the funeral scenes in a separate church from the one we filmed the horror scenes in, therefore we emailed a different church to see if we can gain permission to film.