Preproduction: Defining the 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		Urban, lower middle class, and American 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
Number of Locations	Location (Where?)	Landscape (Indoor/outdoor)	Time of Day and  Tone		Lighting Source	Explanation
8	Mercedes’ House	Indoors	Daytime  Unsuspecting, nice atmosphere		The lights inside of her house	At Mercedes’ House, Merlene and Christine are conversating about their daughters Mercedes and Christine. They introduce the idea of the two girls becoming friends, since they are close in age, and because they attend the same school. With this scene, the audience does not suspect anything wrong to happen later in the opening.
	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, unsettling tone		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.