Locations

Location 1


This area is located in Stockwell and will be the area in which our main character will live. We decided to use this area as it shown to have a safe aesthetic to it therefore the contrast with later on in the film where the character is more vulnerable. The area is urban but not that urban due to a large amount of greenery located in the area, another contrast to the scenes that will be shown later on in the film which will be very urban and un-natural. This wealth suggest naivety in the girl main character therefore the audience will have higher sympathy for her if anything happened to her.

Location 2


This street is located in Pimlico and has the similar aesthetics to the first location. This is another possible located of where the girl could live as it still would show a large contrast to darker grittier scenes later on in the film. The use of white houses is a key aspect of deciding where to film due to the contrast between light and dark and an stereotypical audiences associate perception with them; light is good and dark is bad.




















Location 3


This area is located up town near St.Pauls, the narrow street gives the sense that you are enclosed and cannot escape from there, therefore for psychological thriller it would be good to use. This location also reminds me of the scene in Inception after the main character played by Leornado DiCaprio is being chased in a European city, within this scene he runs down an alley and the walls mysteriously become smaller and smaller towards the end making it harder and harder to escape, this can be interpreted as him trying to escape from his dream or perhaps his reality. The meaning in using this alley is the use of the spire of St.Pauls, as our film has a religious aspect to it, it would be interesting to know the reaction and interpretation of the audience to this shot.

Location 4



This area is located near Wandsworth / Clapham and is a restaurant. I like the aesthetics of this building due to its gothic appearance and architecture. A typical 'haunted' house if you will, this location may be used to pretend to be the college in which the main character goes to school and meets the antagonist for the first time. The use of this building in the trailer may already suggest a  horror film due to conventions in other films which use the same kind of overbearing bold buildings. Our filming schedule is also planned for winter months, therefore another aesthetic of this area is the environment surrounding the building. It is located in a green area and since it will be winter the trees and bushes will be bare, another convention of horror films as it suggests mortality

Location 5

This location is near Bank, in the City of London which is a disused car park which is available for us to film in. We aim to use a green filter/gel for this area as it gives a creepy and eerie tone to the shots used. The location will be the area where we film the cult scenes which shows the different members of the cult the antagonist is a member of, the location has many different styles of area which will be available to use, we aim to give the feel of the main character not being able to escape from this area and to have a contrast from her place where she lives which is outside, light and clean whilst this area is dark, grim and underground. The underground aspect could also be used to have a sub-context due to the religious aspect of the film, it could be shown to be hell because it is underground.

Location 6

This is an outside area outside lambeth college, this could be a good place for the meeting of the characters. It is a large open space that is illuminated at night, the high wall feature adds for an interesting back drop. There is a strange orange sculpture, this can actually be filmed through and this distorts images and acts a filter.

Location 7


This location is in Forest Hill, South London and would be a good Master Shot of London at the beginning of the trailer to establish were the film is set. The area is also very secluded and eerie and therefore would go with the tone of the film. From this point also there is a view of Saint Pauls cathedral and therefore it would be useful to have a shot of St.Pauls to hint at a religious aspect to the film and also would link in later on in the trailer when St Paul is used as a backdrop to one of the scenes shown in location 2. This shot would also show the difference between urban and rural and therefore a contrast alike to later on in the film where the safe urban area that the main character lives in changes to a darker setting, (compare location 1 to location 4)

Concrete Garden

Workings on Concrete Garden poster and image
Using Photo CS5- rough idea combining classical image with urban photograph

Constume Research

I visited a mask shop to do some research into what one we would like to use for our trailer. We particularly like the venetian masks so I decided to look into this area.

This one was our 2nd favourite it looks fairly strange and allows a good costume to be structured around it.

This is one is far too halloween like for us, a definate no.

Far too decrative.

This is a definate contender but in our research we found the venetian bauta mask used in 'eyes wide shut' I then proceeded to look online and order these masks.

The Plot- Concrete Garden

Concrete Garden

Our protagonist is aged between 18-21 years old, she has just moved to London to study. She is not overly confident whilst her body language depicts the complete opposite of her being an alfa-female character. Her name is Emma Jennings and she is very attractive but feels rather alone in her new environment, but naturally is very likable and intelligent. She starts College where she meets a range of new people all whom she feels will have very little significance in her life. She meets with a strange young man similarly aged to her named Mark Francis, he provokes mystery but also elements of perversion. Emma learns the ropes around London and soon becomes far more comfortable, as she settles into her new environment Mark hangs around her more, she shrugs it off at first until she notices him following her home.

We learn more about the background of Emma and learn to sympathise and relate with her as her character is fully established, further involvement of Mark and him beginning stalk her become more influential in the narrative. She starts to become panicked and feels vulnerable to him, he speaks to her in a strange poetic way, and this starts to have strange psychological effects on her which we see later on in the film. He talks of sex, revenge and religious events- her innocence is made clearer as we notice how she reacts in these dark and twisted situations. Mark starts to become actively involved in her life talking to her all the way home, waiting outside her doors etc. Stalker conventions. Mark begins to send Emma images of with religious, twisted, painful and sexually contexts which further caused her psychological harm.

She receives a video message with a masked man telling her that ‘she is needed and she will be eternally rewarded’. This masked character soon becomes an alter ego of Emma and follows her around she cant tell the difference between her mind and reality, but only the audience know this and Emma does not realise. The alter ego is reflection of her paranoia and fright due to the trauma of Mark Francis and this masked character continues to tell her similar things that Mark has told her on numerous occasions to show similarities between the two characters. People start to notice that she is slowly losing her grip on reality and therefore blurring the boundaries and becoming hyperreal, she starts to see Mark as this masked character on occasions he appears to be normal.

One day she feels ill blood drips from her mouth, a bodily change has occurred and she notices marks over her body, without any knowledge of how they appeared there. She tries to leave her house when she opens the door Mark Is there his face barely visible she screams and viscously claws him, he holds her down and tells her that the cult need her and she will be rewarded. Emma becomes frantic and completely insane. He notices her alter ego, and acknowledges the existence- he grabs the mouth of the alter ego and cuts to her in a strange unknown place. Her vision is impaired and she can her weird chanting. Emma greets her masked alter ego, at this stage she is incredibly disturbed and almost lifeless. She is greeted by a panel of similarly masked people, her alter ago goes over and meets them. She is apart of this strange cult, they call her ‘Eve’ and is offered red apples and she is harnessed down to stall. They carry out numerous practices; Mark heads the bizarre sexually provocative displays. Her alter ego tells her that its ok and she needs to let Lucifer take control of her- she continues to scream. The weird acts of sexual torture continue, the audience are made aware of the reality and seediness of the cult. The acts of violence become stronger and more intense from the other cult members, we see CU of Marks face as we see his expression turn to dismay and horror at the events that are taking place. The editing pace quickens until Mark shouts and decides to hold back the members of the cult, this is followed by a short quick fighting scene in which we see the violence turning towards Mark, meanwhile Emma still remains in panic. Fade out, POV / fly on the wall shot of the scenario to convey to the audience the full extent of what has happened, Mark is lying beaten on the ground but still alive as well as other members which are shown to be dead due to the escalation of the fight. Emma is also shown on the ground in panic and a zoom in CU to her face and then fade out. 


She wakes up in an unknown bedroom, she seems confused until she sees her alter ego's mask at the end of the bed. We see her walk away out of the room and away from the mask to signify him leaving her alter ego behind and also the cult. 

The Film Title

Concrete Garden

Our film title is Concrete Garden- we have checked to see if it has been used before and it hasn't.

The reason for this name relates heavily to the films themes, the concrete represents the urban landscape that it is set it. The garden represents the garden of Eden, which is based on the teaching and belief systems in the cult in our film. The idea that the story has been modernised and brought back to life through deranged people is shown in our film title. 

Props- Masks

This mask grabbed our attention right away, its mysterious and fairly frightening. This mask has been used in 'Eyes wide shut' another very popular thriller. This mask is quite hard to find in London and rather expensive so we will have to work hard to find them and get a good deal.

Venetian Bauta White Mask