Location

Locationfor the opening title sequence of my thriller film

The idea… As Rachel and I decided that we wanted

to use the theme of Brownies and Guides throughout our thriller film, we needed the perfect location to set up tents, logs and campfires.

We came up with suggestions of open fields or activity centers where it would be easy to create the atmosphere we wanted, as opposed to a false set.

Close to home? Before the school year had started, I

recently moved house. At the back of my house, there’s vast fields, woods and even a nature reserve. This was a plausible location as to where we would shoot our thriller film. I looked up some details and discovered that it is actually common for people to go camping there. It would additionally be easy to gather all the cast and crew to the set.

Bentley Priory

But… Although the Bentley Priory Nature Reserve

was close to home and ticked all our boxes, we decided that this was not the right choice for us as we were unable to create a campfire there as it is public property.

Since the campfire, is such a crucial part of the mise-en-scene of our title sequence, we decided that this place was not for us.

Activity centers… As Rachel is a Brownies and Guides

leader herself, she came up with a listed of different places she had been camping before.

Together, we cancelled out all the options that were too far from home or not suitable for what we particularly wanted, and came up with a short list of sites and activity centers that would fit the bill.

Northern Heights

Well End

Phasels Wood

Conclusion… These were the three locations we

narrowed the list down to, but in the end it was the Phasels Wood Activity Centre that we picked to film our thriller title sequence in.

We chose this location as it is only a 20 minute drive from our houses and was exactly where we imagined the scene to look like in our minds.

Can we get it? Once we had chosen this location to film

in, we called up the activity centre and explained what our situation was and when we wanted to film by.

Since Rachel was already well known there, they were more than happy to comply and told us to just email them before we wanted to come and then they would set everything up for us, tents and campfire included.