Location Influences

I was heavily influenced by the film Reservoir Dogs when coming up with our idea. When I heard that a warehouse might be available to film in, I jumped at the idea of using this as our location. Tarantino uses this location extremely effectively in Reservoir Dogs, as is necessary since almost the entire film is set inside it. I thought that using an abandoned warehouse would be an ideal place to create the right ‘feel’ of the thriller through the use of mise-en-scene.

Firstly, a warehouse would provide a large, open space which would create a feeling of isolation from the outside world for the characters – ideal for torture where nobody can hear you scream. Secondly, it would create a sense of gritty realism such as in Reservoir Dogs. Finally, we also thought that it would be a unique setting for our film, as we noticed that a common theme for thrillers created by previous year 12s was to set their thriller either in a forest or in an abandoned and decrepit house. While this may work well, we thought that a warehouse would be a breath of fresh air compared with the clichéd settings of many others.