Tuesday 17 December 2013

Location and Recce Shots

For our film, we had to choose revelant locations to shoot in order to get the best shots. Our film was a thriller and therefore mainly set in a woodland. We also had shots at two seperate houses and a school field.


This is the woodland which we filmed a majority of our opening sequence in. It is called the Galleywood Common and is roughly 2 miles from our school. James and I walked from our school to the location first to check it was suitable and took this photo to show the group. After consulting the group, we decided this was a suitable location to film. The picture shown above is the exact location of when Chris first walks through the woods, right at the start of the sequence. It was an overcast and cold day, which added well to the mystery of why Chris was in the woods.




This is the route we had to take to Galleywood Common



 
 
This is James' room where we filmed Chris waking up from his dream, the final shot we see. We chose this place to film because it was easy to access because James is in our group and close to the school. The window on the far side (left side in the film) gave suitable lighting along with a lamp just below the window.

 
 This is the bathrub in which we filmed the shot of the anonymous girl dead in a lake. We got leaves from outside and added them to create the lake effect. The camera panned from right to left along the bath to show the whole body. This was in Sarah's house.