PRE-PRODUCTION; LOCATIONS UPDATE

As the producer, I am in charge of making sure the correct locations are all booked out for what and when we need. These locations and their updates thus far are as follows;

1) A School - originally I had a school in mind, a local primary school that I already have permission to film in. However after discussions with the director we decided that this wouldn't really fit our shoot as the room probably wouldn't be dressed suitable enough for the age range of our characters, with it being a primary school. After this decision, Katie, Laura and I all emailed our old schools that are all local, however after a few weeks we are still yet to hear back. I have now found quite a few schools that are on the Kent Film Office, this is normally a much more concrete and definitive way of getting a location so after sending these applications off I am much more hopeful about this.

2) A House - For some of our scenes we also need a house, this is probably our easiest locations because we all have houses available to us to use and dress how we please. With this we have decided to use a relative of Laura's house so that we are using a different house to ones we have used before. This specific house fits the structure that we need a lot better as well, including the placement of all of the rooms.

3) Dream Sequence - The dream sequence is going to be a basement in Katies house, for the location we just needed a dark room that we can use lighting to create certain atmospheres so after we all went to view this we knew it would work perfectly.

4) A Park - This is our main location where all of our important and most dramatic scenes take place. After some searching on the Kent Film Office, I decided it would be a perfect location because it features a long path all around with benches dotted along the way. I applied for this through the Kent Film Office and was replied with some insurance and risk assessment forms to fill out, further to this we also have to pay £33 for the councils own risk assessment to be done. Myself and Laura went for a recce also, we both took photos of the best parts so we know exactly where we want to film. As the director Laura was really happy with the location, there is lots of space as well as a lot of benches that are quite secluded with scenery so I'm really happy with this location.