Costumes, Props & Locations

The costumes are just typical of what teenagers wear, it is one of the advantages of targeting a teenager audience because we are and our actors are teenagers. In the film it is just Sam and Tom's typical everyday clothing, which creates realism, if they were wearing suits or really expensive clothing it would not seem right.

The props are very much to do with technology. In the film we obviously needed 2 webcams and 2 computers (with the usual bits & bobs; keyboard, mouse, screen), these are the main props used. However there is also another prop used. I may add that it was a stroke of genius to do so. The other prop it is the drink (which at 1 point Sam gets up to get) and we see him drink from several times in the opening. This adds a whole new element of realism and shows that we really thought about realism, which is very important in the thriller genre. I mean the number of times I sit on MSN with a cup of tea in my hand, I even know people who take this 1 step further and eat their dinner while on MSN.

We originally planned to have 2 locations. These were Sam's bedroom and Tom's bedroom. We also originally planned to actually film top with the camera also but decided against this. In the actual video the 2 characters are in different locations, but Tom is actually only in the next room from Sam, who is in the spare bedroom in his house and Tom is in Sam's bedroom. Going back to a point I mentioned earlier we actually didn't film Tom in the end, we were going to film him like we film Sam; as though our camera was the webcam. But after seeing Tom through the webcam on Sam's computer we thought it looked really good so we decided to carry that on through the whole opening. So we actually only film from 1 location. We decided to do this with Tom as the quality of the webcam image was good, but not as good as an actual video camera and because of this it adds to the concealment and mystery of when Tom gets taken away.