Locations- BEN RODWELL

Our thriller will have 3 main locations. These will be a forest or wooded area, an urban/suburban/streeted area and an indoors location. To decide on these locations we visited each, took photos, evaluated the light and space potential and then made a decision based on these properties.

Potential locations

Forest/wooded area

1. Smock-mill Common- Newton Flotman

Advantages:

• Large and open wooded areas
• good light
• good variety of locations
• large site

Disadvantages:

• Not easily accessible
• Far from Norwich
• Very popular and busy

2. Marston Marshes- Norwich

Advantages:

• Not very busy
• close to central norwich
• easily accessible
• good light

Disadvantages:

• Smaller site

Chosen Location: Marston Marshes. Because of the ease of getting there and the good light we chose the marshes. As we only needed one scene filmed there the smaller size of the site would not be an issue.

Urban/sub-urban/streeted area

1. Norwich Lanes

Advantages

• Easily accessible- central
• good variety of locations
• large site
• good light

 Disadvantages

• busy
• legal issues with shops being in footage

2.Cringleford/Eaton

Advantages

• Easily accessible
• good variety of locations
• large site
• not busy
• near to Marston Marshes

Disadvantages

• Not as central as Norwich Lanes

Chosen location: Cringleford/Eaton. Logistically it makes more sense to film here as it is very close to Marston Marshes. Additionally it has a good array of different kinds of urban locations and has streetlights and open areas resulting in good lighting.

Indoor/House location

Chosen location: Ruth's House. One member of our group, Ruth offered to let us use her house to film in. The advantages of this were: 

• The room was well lit
• The room was large enough to film in
• Its layout worked well with our storyboarding shots
• It was central and easy to get to
• It was available at any time due to ruth being in our group

This as the location we chose.