Location Recce and Decisions

Difficulties• Some of the difficulties that we faced when deciding on locations

was due to the permissions that they may involve.• The church interior would have helped our trailer look like

different scenes from a film rather than one consecutive trailer. However, the themes that our film involves may have been unwanted by the church.

• We also found that Steph’s house was too modern looking for the cult like themes that we were trying to produce.

How did we overcome this?

With no permission to film in the interior of the church, we instead took some exterior shots.Instead of using Steph’s house we used Lauren’s Grandmas in Saddleworth. Here we had a wider range of locations and the look of an old village.

Changes

Why?

We decided not to film in Saddleworth as it was quite dangerous at night and was hard to get to.

Steph’s house looked quite modern and there wasn’t a range of rooms to film in.

We didn’t film in the church as we couldn’t get permission and we felt that the theatre didn’t look quite as promising.

How?

We changed our Saddleworth location to rural Uppermill – nearer to home, looks just as deserted and many roads to film on.

We also decided to film at Lauren’s Grandmas rather than at Steph’s house as it looked old fashioned and as we had planned.

However, we decided to take out the scenes in the church. We found that they gave too much plot away for a teaser trailer.

What worked well?

• The decisions to go to Lauren’s Grandmas was very successful as here we filmed in lots of locations. The bedroom looked overly sweet and was a good lighting.

• One room featured a dining table, a book shelf and a piano. Because it was a big room we were able to shoot around each piece of furniture whilst deceiving the audience that we were in different places.