Practical Task: Location - Mehrabi Ward

Practical Task Location:

For my practical task, I went to a nearby castle ruin. The ruins were located in Sutton Valence, at the top of the hill. Below are a few images i took of the castle ruins.

This image is from the bottom of the hill looking up at the castle. I think that this shot is very effective as it has the dead tree branch leaning across one of the main walls of the ruin. Also on the wall there is a large crack which could be used quite effectively, if we were to have a figure looking through, to show the ruins are dangerous.

This is the first part of the castle you can see when you reach the top of the hill, i liked this shot because it looks quite eerie and you can clearly see where the entrance to the castle used to be. In this shot you can see the information stand to the right, so if we were to film at this location we would have to make sure it doesn't get into the shot because it could ruin whole atmosphere of the scene.

This is another shot of the ruins, this is now from inside the castle, with all of the walls surrounding. Each wall has some sort of crack, which i thought looks effective because you can see the amount of destruction has been caused to it, for it to be int the state it is in now. 

This shot shows one of the pathways, leading out of the castle, which I thought we could have the dark figure walking out from, if again we were to use this as our location.

 This shot is from inside the pathway, from the previous shot, this area could be quite good to film in because the level of lighting is quite low, creating more of a gloomy effect, which conforms to the types of lighting used in horror films, so this place could be quite a good location to use for the film opening. In the back of this shot you can see the information stand again, which if we were to use this as our actual location we would have to make sure that it doesn't get into our actual shot, by positioning the camera in a different place.
Overall even though this type of location isn't common to see in a horror film, as it doesn't look to be in a house or in a secluded wooded area. Although, this location does seem to look quite isolated which is what locations are usually like in horror films.