RECCE SHOTS AND REPORT

The location for our film shooting is in Crowthorne, situated in Bracknell Forest District. Location A is farmhouse house off of Wellingtonia Avenue, this location will be used to shoot any part of the story that involves having a house in shot, such as the ending. Location B is Simons Wood, this is situated approximately a 10 minute walk from location A and will be used to shoot all the scenes that involves the forest or the car going down the forest roads.

LOCATION A – FARMHOUSE

This is the farmhouse in which we will shoot the opening scene when Jessie is getting ready and then cutting to Chris taking drugs in his car outside the house, if this is the direction we decide to go with the script. This house has 5 bedrooms and 1 spare room, all of which would be suitable to film the opening scene of Jessie getting ready for the party. Outside the house in the front garden, there is a car parking shed as well as a long driveway, both of these locations within the house would be suitable to shoot the opening scene. One of our potential ending sequences consists of Jessie making it to the farmhouse and knocking on the door, again this house is perfect, as you can see, it has a porch which lights up at night, leading up to the door way.

LOCATION A – FARMHOUSE

This is the lane leading up to the farmhouse, this will be used for the ending scene when Jessie has spotted the farm house and is running up this lane to get to it. This particular lane works, as it is very similar to the forest in location B, but leads directly up to the house, which would make that scene a lot easier to shoot as we won’t have to do any dramatic edits on making two separate locations look like they are one location, for this scene. However in the cold and wet weather, this location does get very muddy an d therefore this will need to be considered in our risk assessment.

LOCATION B – SIMONS WOOD

Location B, Simons Wood, is only a short walk away from the farmhouse. This location is ideal for shooting ‘Jack out of the Box’ as it located on the outskirts of a village area and therefore is very quite with very few people walking through, only the occasional dog walker and will therefore be a desirable external shooting location, as there will be minimum disruptions. This woods has a wide range of settings within it as it a mixture of different areas, such as denser areas that are thick with bushes and trees, this may be ideal when shooting Chris’s stalking scenes. There are also locations within this woods that are less dense and have footpaths, these may be therefore ideal for shooting the scenes in which the couple walk down through the forest and the scenes in which Jessie is running away from Chris when he becomes possessed. The edge of Simons Wood, leads onto various long country lanes, including Wellingtonia Avenue, most of these country lanes do not get busy and therefore may be ideal for shooting the car crashing/breaking down scene. There are other various settings that this woods can offer, for example there is a lake in the middle of the forest and therefore we could consider shooting part of a scene here, there is also a hill near the lake which looks onto the forest, again this could be a potential location within this location that we can choose to shoot in. Like the lane leading up to the farmhouse, this forest does get very muddy and wet, when there has been cold and rainy weather, as this is also an external setting, we will also have to consider wet weather when deciding when we are going to shoot the film, this again, something that can be added to the risk assessment.