Locations/Prop List

Location list:

• Local Church – This church is right near Pollards Park which is ideal as this would make filming easier as we don’t have to travel very far to film our scenes. Moreover, the scenes that are going to be set in this location is the scene of Flora biting Megan’s hand and when she tries to help Flora by taking her to church. This allows the audience to see the change in Megan’s behaviour to becoming more abnormal.
•  Pollards Park – This is where Flora pushes Daisy of the swing. This yet again highlights her darker side.
• Near Pollards Park/Pathway – This location is very ideal for our chase scene of Megan running away from Flora as the pathway is very narrow with trees surrounding it. The mise-en-scene is also effective and we are able to record the back of Megan which leaves the audience suspicious as they don’t know who is chasing her.
• Norbury Court Road – Establishing shot of the family house. This shot sets the trailer as it will be featured near to the start when we see the family in their everyday normal life.
• Afreen’s House – In this location, we are going to film a variety of scenes including a scene where Flora is rapidly washing her bloody hands and hides stained clothes which implies that she is trying to cover up her father’s death. Moreover, another scene that would be recorded at my house is the psychiatrist scene, as the audience we soon discover that Flora is not as innocent as she seems. We also planned to film Flora strangling her doll with a ribbon.
• Drama studio – This is in our school and it will feature Flora’s mum Jean. The scene will show her ill in a mental institute and there is a close up of her saying “You have the wrong person; please let me go... Let me go, you will regret it if you don’t..” This location is very effective as it is dark which adds to the gloomy atmosphere and it will also look realistic in terms of being in a mental asylum.

Prop list:

In order for our trailer to stand out and be more effective, we needed props that made our narrative more recognisable and realistic for example we had to think about buying fake blood to make our scenes even scarier and jumpier. Additionally, some of these props also hold important connotations for the audience for example the creepy doll is seen to be clean and girly at the start but at the end we see the doll as battered and dirty. This symbolises Flora’s itself as the audience witnesses her turn from innocent to sinister in the trailer.

• Creepy doll – Flora is always seen with this doll in her hand and this has been given to her by her father.
• Makeup for Jeans mental asylum scene – This makeup will highlight the bruises that her husband did to her.
•  Candles – This relates to the church scene and when Flora is seen praying.
• Fake blood – For a variety of scenes including the window scene where we see James hand covered in blood symbolising his death and his last moment.
• Ribbons for Flora – These coloured ribbons (red, black, white) will be seen on Flora and also in one scene she strangles her doll with a red ribbon.
• Dresses for Flora – There will be two coloured dresses that Flora will be seen in. At the start she will be seen in white and near to the end when the audience can witness her abnormal behaviour, she will be wearing black.
• Red lipstick – When Flora turns sinister, we see her trying her mum’s makeup and we see red lipstick smeared on her face.
• Crayons and paper – When Flora is talking to the psychiatrist, she is scribbling away and ends up breaking a crayon on purpose.
•  Bible – When Flora is seen praying she reads the bible.
• Old clothes – This is for the blood scene where she bins the stained clothes to try to cover up her dad’s murder.
• Round mirror – This will be used when Megan is getting changed and we see Flora watching her through the mirror.
• Knife – Moreover, in the trailer we will see quick shots of Flora with a knife attempting to stab someone. This is effective as it will make the audience jump as it is not expected.
• Photograph & photo frame – This will be used when we use an over the shoulder shot to show Flora scratching out a family portrait.