Imagination Sequences – Location Scouting

Basketball Effect:

I will be splitting my project in half which i explained in my detail on my Splitting my project in half blog. I need locations for all 4 of my effects. For my basketball effect, i needed somewhere that was open and had hardly any people that go there. I found a place on Silverdale road and its a park called Tatton which is a safe and secure park. I also looked at St Peters Park on Erskine Road. I visited on 4 occasions and realised that there were always children on there and on closer inspection, it was too small. At Tatton Park there is an open space where i can use the basketball nets. This is perfect for my basketball effect as I need this open wide space in order to create my effect. There are numerous tasks that I must do because in the basketball tutorial I found the points they tell me to do all work with this location.

Silverdale Road Park

St Peters Park

Car Hitting Effect:

I was looking for a main road that wasnt too busy as I wanted a faster car to give the scene a better effect. I researched the local area and decided that the quieter or rural areas wouldnt suit this scene. I chose Bagganley Lane for this scene out of the 2 options that I looked at. The other was Montcliffe Road but as you can see, I felt there were too many cars and I couldnt guarantee Thomas’s safety.  I waited for a fast car to appear. In that instant a lorry approached, quickly and as I filmed it, I felt this would have been more appropriate to that scene. I then filmed Thomas and put these 2 scenes together. I feel this scene was very effective and very happy with the result.

Bagganley Lane

Montcliffe Road

 

Car Dodge Effect:

I have looked at various locations for the car hitting effect. I looked in rural areas, at main roads and quiet roads. As an afterthought, I realised that I needed to film somewhere safe and to minimise the risk to Thomas hurting himself, as he is laying in the road. I decided to film this sequence on a quiet road to ensure Thomas’s safety. I made 2 different film takes and amalgamated them. With the road being quiet, I was able to film the car sequence and there were no other cars to interfere with the filming. As Thomas was standing in the road, his safety was most important. I chose a quiet road with a culdesac to make it less likely for any injuries to happen.

Bagganley Lane

Gun Shot Effect:

For this scene I wanted to find a house with a long pathway leading to the front door. This is because the scene I was aiming for was quite a long shot and I needed time to make the shot more realistic and give the impression that anything can possibly happen, even in our local areas. I looked at various houses in the area and found one ideal for my filming. I asked permission from the owner if I could use his house and he was happy to allow me. I have shown 3 houses to follow, 1 of which is what I have used.

Moorfields

This is the house I used for me scene. As you can see it has a long drive and there is lots of outside clear space to enable ease of filming.

The next 2 houses shown are ones which I felt would not suit my filming. One has no driveway, so I would struggle filming my scene because it’s on a main road and I need more driveway/time to film that scene.

The other house’s front door is too covered. I felt that the foliage may interrupt my filming and being as the path curves, I may have struggled filming the gun shot scene.

Tracey’s house

 

Tonys house

 

I know need to find some audio sound effect site and see where i can get sounds effects from throughout my whole short film, not just the imagination sequences.