Location Research

  For our film we used 6 different locations. We did not end up using all of these, as some of the locations we only used for test shots. Our locations were:

Palmer Park, Reading.

This first location is where the fair will be during the first week of the Easter break. It is on the outskirts of Reading, and the place where the fair will be built up is quite far away from the road, so the camera will not pick up the noises of the cars. We also plan to film quite early in the morning, so will not have to worry about too many people walking into shot. 

Eel Brook Common. 

 Our second location is a park in Fulham, London. The fair will be open here for the second half of the Easter break and will be open everyday during the week, so will give us a very large window n which to film, without having to worry about continuity issues due to the placement of the rides. This location, however is very close to a main road, so we will have to be very careful with out set up in order not to include cars moving etc. 

Farm Road.

Our third location is Farm road, which will serve purpose for the first half of our opening, when there are still humans alive. It is surrounded with hoses, and is often quite busy, due to it's location near the school, and in a housing area, so would make the place look inhabited and natural, which is what we desired. 

White Waltham: 

For the test shot we decided to look at places that would normally be quite busy, and then make them look deserted /derelict. For one of these, this was White Waltham school.

Bottle Lane:

Another one of our test shots was of a road, as you would expect to see cars driving down the road, but we used this road, as at certain times of the day there aren't many cars driving down it, and so gave it a spooky edge.

Shottesbrook:

Shottesbrooke park is also an ideal location, as, although it does contain a small estate of very old houses and a church, which makes the place look very picturesque, and at times very spooky, the place is closed off, and so would give us the desired effect of the place being deserted.