Location Scouting

For Black Nightmare we're looking for a house located in a normative neighbourhood so we can play with the hand of fate theory , where the audience feels like it could happen to anyone what is going to take place in our slasher. So we looked at Ben's house however it was too close to a main road so there were issues with recording as we'd have the constant sound of cars driving past, but also we wanted to do a scene where we'd have the scream queen driving down a road and then into her house but we couldn't do that at Ben's as it was too busy.

Black Nightmare's Scream Queen's house.

Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978)

So we then looked at Dom's house for the possibility of filming here as he lived more in a quiet neighbourhood so it seem more likely that we'd be able to get better audio recording and more chance to be able to get clean scene with no cars interrupting our scenes. Also it had a large window looking out on to the road which is what we were needing for our stalk scene when the killer is looking onto the house. So we've chosen to film at this location rather than the other. We looked at Halloween ( John Carpenter, 1978) for influence as the house in this opening was what would seem to be the normative for our audience, as it's a middle class house in a normative neighbourhood, and the house that we've chosen to use is also in a normative neighbourhood which also plays the 'hand of fate' theory in a way, because it makes the audience feel like it could happen to anyone even them.