For our thriller we wanted a secluded area what hasn't got much life. Being secluded is a generic thriller theme therefore we were sticking to the genre. We found St. Andrews car park. St. Andrews car park is a perfect place as it has an open roof but the roof is surrounded in lights making it perfect for shooting in dark but also has endless opportunity's making the opening to the film exciting, or main character Charlie could fall off the side! Another reason why we chose this car park is that this location is a very common place, therefore in this film we are making a normal location into a dangerous, mysterious location. We knew shooting in the dark will always be a challenge although the effect of it makes it fantastic as you never know what's coming from any angle!
Lighting
We filmed our opening to the thriller film 'Delusion' at night time, the reason we chose this is because the depths of the night are always mysterious and you never know what's waiting for you round the next corner. The non ambient lighting from the car park lights creates shadows and the wet ground creates reflections therefore this leads the audiences to jumping to conclusions, thinking someone is there when actually they are not, this creates a dream like affect making the audience feel the same as Charlie our main character. In the opening we used Chiaroscuro lighting, a generic thriller theme. As Charlie parks his car we use a very controversial use of lighting as he goes from being in a dark car, to having the lights come on, this leads the audience to believe that Charlie is the dominant character as 'the light is shining down on him' although towards the end of the dream the lighting gets darker and darker showing the Charlie is not going to be the dominant figure therefore the lighting in the start of 'Delusion' makes the audience confused because its almost telling them a different story. Especially at the end of the start of 'Delusion' where 'the light is shining down on Molly although she is dead.
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