Pre-production: Defining Setting

 

Location (Where?)	Time Period (When)?	Landscape (Indoor/outdoor)	Tone	Social Economical Status, governing principles of the place and culture
The general setting of the world is at Piper High.	The film is set in the present.	This film mostly takes place inside Piper High school. But there will be some scenes that are off campus (i.e. Mercedes’ home)	Tense, Suspenseful, Unnerving	Middle Class, urban culture
Some Locations in our film are:  Mercedes’ House  On Piper High’s campus. This includes:  Outside the school’s buildings, in school hallways, the bathroom, and the cafeteria   A dark room in Christine’s home

Location (Where?)	Landscape (Indoor/outdoor)	Time of Day	Tone	Lighting Source	Explanation
On the way to school	Outdoors	Daytime	Awkward, unexpecting,	The Sun	Mercedes is seen walking to school, when suddenly she bumps into Christine and drops her class schedule. Christine introduces herself and exclaims “Wow, we have the same math class! Can’t wait to see you then.” Mercedes thinks it’s a weird thing to say but doesn’t think much of   it.
Inside the school’s counselor's office	Indoors	Daytime	Intense, Shocking	Ceiling lights inside the office	In the next scene, the audience finds out that what Christine previously said was a lie, because Christine is shown at the school counselor’s office asking for her original math class to be switched to the math class Mercedes has.
In School hallways	Indoors	Daytime	Unusual, abnormal	Lights inside the hallways	In the next few scenes, you can see Christine actively stalking Mercedes in random places. She keeps popping up wherever Mercedes is, and Mercedes has finally noticed this.
Bathroom	Indoors	Daytime	Creepy	Lights inside the bathroom	In this scene, Mercedes’ and her best friend, Lizzy are chatting in the school bathroom. The audience gets to view Christine stalking Mercedes secretly. Christine says, “Who’s this?” to Mercedes, because she doesn’t know that Lizzy is her best friend, so she’s jealous.
Cafeteria	Indoors	Daytime	Suspenseful	Lights in the school cafeteria	Mercedes is finally done with Christine stalking her everywhere. She finally confronts her, telling her “Leave me alone you creep! I don’t want to be your friend.” Christine does not take this confrontation very well.
A dark room in Christine’s House	Indoors	Daytime	Tense	There’s very little light, so the lighting is very dim (it comes from her room’s lights)	After Mercedes’ confrontation, Christine is very irritated and upset. She rushes into this dark room in her house, covered in pictures of Mercedes. She takes a second to think about her next move before coming up with the “perfect” idea, mind controlling her.