Location Shots - Train Station

Location Shots - Train Station

The corresponding scene after the title sequence where we have established the character of Kyle and his overall situation we will move on the scene where he gets off of a train on the platform.
In this scene is where we first show The Client, not his face, but the back of his head. To keep the anonymity we are deciding to not show The Client's face until the last scene in the movie when it is revealed through the flashback.
The platform has properties to it that we need to include for the first scene in the film. The long platform means that we have plenty of space to film in and because the setting itself has moderate levels of danger we need to make sure that we have enough space for equipment and also for the cast and crew to make sure we can space out but not to a dangerous limit.

Another element to the platform that we like is that the 2 barriers, one higher than the other, would be a good substitute to the bridge that we were initially going to use in this scene.
It would be a lot easier to film on as it would be easier to do the split focus shots between The Client and Kyle as the shot would be clearer as the walls around bridge that we were going to use are quite high and the actor playing The Client is small and we would struggle to do the shot that we want, especially since we aren't sure if the camera would reach the height that we would like it to.







The barriers that the train station has would be an ideal substitute instead of the bridge as they can give the same effect that we would like to create with this scene of that close/distance barrier between Kyle and The Client. We would like to create this effect as we feel that it would be beneficial to the genre as it would add that tense atmosphere as this is the first scene where The Client is introduced and you never actually get to see his face which aids the anonymity we would like to create with the character of The Client before we reveal him towards the end.
The barriers are also a lot closer together which we thought could cause a problem as it might not create the same tone to this scene because it isn't from a clear distance which would make the scene eerier. Although we thought about it on the other hand and the fact that the barriers aren't that far away from each other could also be beneficial to the mood in the scene as it is quite unsettling to know that there is someone so close to you, watching you and you wouldn't even realise. To have this happen in quite a rural and normal atmosphere could also create that intense, thrilling and almost disturbing atmosphere as this is a location which many of us, and hopefully the audience, are familiar with. This could overall make the scene a lot more relatable and overall create a more thrilling atmopsphere.

This was done in the psychological horror 'The Strangers'. Although this film is a horror as opposed to a thriller, it still has qualities for this scene that we can definitely incorporate into this scene. This atmosphere was particularly effective in this certain scene of The Strangers that also ended up being used as one of the version of the film's posters.

This scene was particularly effective as the fact that this complete masked stranger is in her home, a place where you should keep the safest almost radiates disturbance and broke the barrier between what is known as comfortable to an audience. This scene also came under scrutiny with the public when people asked the question 'Why didn't she turn around?' which almost questionned the film's feability as legitimately 'scary'. Although when a random post turned up on a blogger website answered everyone's question, the feel seemed as eerie and as disturbing again.

This was the blog post: