Currently, with the script changes that I have been doing, there are 4 locations that we will be using. Some of them I have had to get into contact with the Kent Film Offices and others I have had to get into contact directly with an organisation. Our 5 locations and their updates are as follows:
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| Email I sent to Schools |
1) School - The school seemed to be our hardest location to find. From the start, myself and Laura decided we would UCA Rochester as a backup, so we always knew we would have a location. However, the reason we didn't want to have to use UCA is because we would have to do a lot of scene dressing to make it look like an actual school classroom, we would like to look as authentic as possible. I began but getting myself and my team to email our old schools, we are all local to the area so hoped one of our 3 secondary schools would be able to help up, however we were yet to hear anything back. I then expanded the search to most secondary schools in Medway, I emailed about 7 school offices, explaining what we were doing and what we needed. Luckily, I had two schools email me back, explaining they may be able to help us but they need to get confirmation from their head teacher. As it turns out, being from the area, I actually knew the two people who had replied to me through neighbours. I have been told that I should receive an email on Monday 3rd December confirming the location.
2) House - As the writer, I was visualising exactly the type of house that we needed. We needed a room that had minimal furniture, and room to make it messy. At the start of the script, the room is messy and covered in rubbish, but by the end it is completely clean, tidy and spotless. I wanted a room that had minimal furniture and lots of floor space, so that we could really accentuate this change of cleanliness throughout. Again, as we were from the area, we took advantage of this and asked people we were close too if we could recce their houses, we went and took pictures (as shown) to decide what house would be the best fit. I also looked on Air BnB, thinking we could find a place to film at that would also accommodate our actors, however on asking the hosts they explained they couldn't allow filming in their houses, so we had to abandon this idea. The house that we have gone with, has come to us free of charge, it has the perfect bedroom allowing the director to really mess it up for the filming, and it has the perfect downstairs area because of the placement of the kitchen in respect to the door (within the script, a lot happens in the kitchen which we need to be out of sight from the front door where something else takes place).
3) Park - As the producer I began my search for the park using the Kent Film Office. Previously, I have used Haysden Country Park in Tonbridge, this location is an open space field, myself and my group went to Haysden again to recce and see if this would be suitable as I knew we would be able to get permission to film here, however we needed to confirm that it was suitable for our major project. After the recce and discussions, Laura (director) and I decided that Haysden would not be suitable for our film, we needed a field with a long path on it, the path is one of the two most important features of this location that we need and so we decided against this location. I found Mote Park on the Kent Film Office website, After doing a recce with Laura, we knew that Mote Park was the place we wanted to film. It is a large area with huge space and scope for us to film in, it has benches dotted along a river which are perfect for us. I applied for this location through the Kent Film Office, giving them the dates we would like to film and filling in the insurance forms. Currently, I have received the filming permit for this, and am awaiting an invoice to pay the cost of £33 for a risk assessment.
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Filming Permit
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| Mote Road, Maidstone |
4) Street - As i have added in a lot of new scenes featuring on a road, there was now a new location I needed to find, which was a road. This will be the place where Nova dies and where her memorial will be held. In terms of the type of road we need there is two things that I need to consider, firstly it needs to be safe in terms of health and safety as we will be filming very near the road. Also, it needs to be wide enough to accommodate the type of memorial we need to dress. Myself and Director Laura drove around Maidstone in a bid to find the perfect road, luckily we found Mote Road, which is very close to Mote Park, one of our other locations. Mote Road has extremely wide paths, with wide areas of grass separating the path and the road. Filming here means the least disruption as possible to residents, because there houses are a fair distance away from the paths, but it also means we have quite a main road, with a good amount of traffic to accommodate to the background in the script. I have applied for a permit for this through the Kent Film Office and I should be receiving permissions within the next few days.
2) House - As the writer, I was visualising exactly the type of house that we needed. We needed a room that had minimal furniture, and room to make it messy. At the start of the script, the room is messy and covered in rubbish, but by the end it is completely clean, tidy and spotless. I wanted a room that had minimal furniture and lots of floor space, so that we could really accentuate this change of cleanliness throughout. Again, as we were from the area, we took advantage of this and asked people we were close too if we could recce their houses, we went and took pictures (as shown) to decide what house would be the best fit. I also looked on Air BnB, thinking we could find a place to film at that would also accommodate our actors, however on asking the hosts they explained they couldn't allow filming in their houses, so we had to abandon this idea. The house that we have gone with, has come to us free of charge, it has the perfect bedroom allowing the director to really mess it up for the filming, and it has the perfect downstairs area because of the placement of the kitchen in respect to the door (within the script, a lot happens in the kitchen which we need to be out of sight from the front door where something else takes place).
3) Park - As the producer I began my search for the park using the Kent Film Office. Previously, I have used Haysden Country Park in Tonbridge, this location is an open space field, myself and my group went to Haysden again to recce and see if this would be suitable as I knew we would be able to get permission to film here, however we needed to confirm that it was suitable for our major project. After the recce and discussions, Laura (director) and I decided that Haysden would not be suitable for our film, we needed a field with a long path on it, the path is one of the two most important features of this location that we need and so we decided against this location. I found Mote Park on the Kent Film Office website, After doing a recce with Laura, we knew that Mote Park was the place we wanted to film. It is a large area with huge space and scope for us to film in, it has benches dotted along a river which are perfect for us. I applied for this location through the Kent Film Office, giving them the dates we would like to film and filling in the insurance forms. Currently, I have received the filming permit for this, and am awaiting an invoice to pay the cost of £33 for a risk assessment.
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