Last week Jag and myself went on an 6 or 7 mile grueling location scout in the cold weather, the end result wasn't too pretty as Jag fell ill on the way back and the next day I phoned him at 3pm and he was still in bed!!! But we got a lot of things done which is why we were so exhausted...
The lane
It will appear somewhere in the beginning of the film, hopefully it will be this exact lane, but if not we know another lane we could use which is more quiet but somewhat private which is another issue in itself.
The reason we chose a lane, without actually knowing in detail exactly what will happen in the scene is because the perspective of the lane itself kind of visually mirrors some of the other scenes around it and relates to something else I'm not allowed to mention, third reason we're using it is because there's something about it which looks visually stunning. That's about all i can say on that for now. The lane in Friday the 13th: Jason's Rage
The reason we were going to use this lane in our fan film we've yet to make: 'Friday the 13th: Jason's Rage' because it looks like a small country lane that would be in New Jersey.. More on that: i am still up for making that film and I think it is good to put it on hold for now because if we leave it for the future, we will not only have better experience but will also have more film equipment we would have bought by then. That's not to say that the upcoming film we are currently making now won't be as good. But to tackle a franchise well brings along fan expectations that we would have to meet which is tricky believe it or not as we don't have a budget that would even meet the original F13. So we want to tread carefully with any films we will make from now on, this make take a lot of time and money but we will hopefully make films that will be an improvement upon our last efforts. Anyway along the way we saw another potential location, this time for the fan film:
Regarding Friday the 13th 2009, i think it was a good attempt at bringing in both the original fans of the franchise as well as attracting new ones because it used the original formula but added the style of post 2000 horror of fast cutting, dark lighting and jerky camera movement.. Despite the fact that I myself DID NOT LIKE THIS SHOOTING AND EDITING STYLE, I respected the writers because they respected the fans ad i am a hardcore fan of the franchise so there will probably be a lot of future discussion to come on Jason Voorhees..
Anyways back to our Location Scout
The location we thought was a bike ramp area was most likely a paintball gun range we discovered later on -coincidently relating back to Friday the 13th again (only true fans of the franchise will get what i mean)
Basically this location serves good for the scene we want because as you can see there would be many places to run and hide, and it generally has something creepy and other worldly about it if treated in the right way. It may seem a bit of a random location but we have good reasons for choosing an area like this as you'll hopefully understand when you see the film at the end of this year.
Later on the scout we unintentionally came across some more locations that were scripted which we may or may not use, depending on creative grounds or simply if we can get permission:
in addition to scouting, we also filmed some of the new opening title shots which should include in the next horror show episode if all goes to plan, this was pretty easy as we have done the same thing a year ago but the footage was recorded on the dead Hi8 format, the camera broke shortly afterward which stopped us from even transferring it onto a computer! We still have more crazy shots to film on that as we pretty much half assed it because we were focusing on the location scout more than anything. I think next weekend we should be filming the rest of the intro
Thanks for reading even though I doubt many people bothered to....
The Next written blog will be up next week, in the meantime STAY DEAD
-John Mitchison
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