Potential Locations

Hellesdon house

The only things that we require for our opening of a thriller is a house and an alley.

We have discussed many location choices, this includes:
Hellesdon house- This would be an ideal location for our thriller opening because it maintains an antique look which creates a sophisticated visual. The reason that this is useful is because we are trying to follow conventions of Film Noir as that is where most of our inspiration came from.
This house also has an alley next to it and so it covers that portion of our requirements as well.

Hellesdon bannister

We also needed a staircase as we wanted to use the bannisters to create connotations of prison and therefore criminality.

Another factor about this house is that it has many rooms and so there is variety and choices when we are filming about how we want the shots to look. We believe the more control we have, the better our film opening will come out.
However a limiting factor is that it's relatively far away from where we live and so the likelihood of everyone getting to the same location all in the same day makes it difficult to film and re-shoot should we need to. 

Mulbarton house- This house is similar to the one above in the sense that it look quite antique however this house isn't as big and so we are limited with variation. Another problem is that the rooms look similar and so we would have to move locations when shooting the shots of "Serena". We would shoot these shots in another house and the p

ositive of this is that it isn't too far from the original house and so it is achievable.
The advantages to this house is that it is close to everyone in the group and it is easy to get there and back to our own houses which makes more time for us to film all f the shot we need. Also, there is a long driveway which can be seen as an alley. The long driveway allows for our opening shots to be much more effective as the extra space allows us to indent our font much easier. 
Despite the house not necessarily fitting the film noir genre, this house may be the best choice due to the accessibility of the location and the availability to re-shoot any footage we have to.
There is also a staircase with bannisters which will contribute to the film noir genre we are trying to achieve due to the bar-like bannisters.
 Also, there is a long driveway which can be seen as an alley. The long driveway allows for our opening shots to be much more effective as the extra space allows us to indent our font much easier.