Back-up Location

This is our back-up location - The Stansted Nature Reserve, also known as Alsa Wood. We will film here tomorrow if there is still construction work going on at our original chosen location.

Location update

For Our opening sequence, we need a location that provides an urban surrounding but also leads onto an open area. for this we have chosen Stansted as there is a residential area with a long footpath leading onto a field. This location will help create that more familiar environment which people can relate to, therefore making our opening more believable and real. 







As mentioned before, this is the opening space which we will film the end of the pursuit with the criminal. As the picture was taken on google maps last year, the field is rather over grown and un-cared for and, as a result of this, we feel it is symbolic in a way that it fits to Detective Vince Clarke's mindset, he is now un-cared for and distraught since he lost Alice, his daughter.

Location

Location is a key aspect that we have to consider when filming our thriller opening. In order to create the most believable opening as well as portraying the right atmosphere will all depend on the setting of our opening. Therefore I have been going out and looking around various locations which would suit of opening the best. Below is images of which I decided would work best:

This location, in the nature reserve in Stansted, stood out to me as, firstly, the way the trees have been cut down either side of the bridge give the impression of a rather denatured place as the trees have been hacked down untidily. In my eyes it also symbolises death as the trees have been destroyed therefore it would mirror, so to speak, the death of the daughter. Secondly, the wooden bridge in the centre of the picture would create a deep thudding diegetic sound if it were to be run over, and add to the sinister atmosphere.

In this image, also in the nature reserve in Stansted, the lake caught my eye as it offered a varied way of filming. If a character were to walk along the path to the right of the lake then we could use the reflections from the lake to film him/her.

The third picture from the nature reserve in Stansted, works well as the single solitary path has a sense of confinement about it as well as giving the impression that the character has a lack of choice in the matter as they can only go one way and this reflects how the daughter didn't have a choice in her murder.