PLANNING. For the Media Film

Filming
I worked with Bryony.
Time- Victorian times.
Place- Dead mans alley
Queens Lane
PLANNING:
FIRST IDEAS:
Brainstorm.... STORY!!!!!!


PLANNING: PLACE:
In the Victorian times people who were criminals eg. Thieves were punished by the firing squad. Thieves and other criminals were lined up against the wall, blindfolded and tired up. The firing squad were a group of men who's job was to shoot and kill them.
We changed our first initial idea because we found out that dead mans walk was the place where criminals were shot by the firing squad and killed for their crimes they had committed. There bodies where then carried away in a wheelbarrow to be buried.
We chose Dead Mans walk not only because of the history we found out about the firing squad but also the other history that we found out about the place having references to the war...
(SAY HISTORY OF DEAD MANS WALK)
We decided not to film in the graveyard due to the graveyard being very public. We didn't want to offend anyone and in the evenings town is busy and people are trying to get home from work and we came up with the conclusion it would be fairly difficult to film under these circumstances and didn't want to upset anyone.
So our choice of place was set to be filmed down Dead Mans Walk.
The complications of filming here was that we could only film up to dusk due to the council closing early. Also we wanted to film at night which became a problem, then we thought we could film early as it opens at 7, but it is quite light at this time, which we didn't expect so in the end we have decided to film early in the morning but we can edit the lighting when we have done the filming.
Another problem is that Dead Mans Walk is a really beautiful place when the weathers nice, so filming is difficult when many people like to take a walk as they accidentally get into the shot, not knowing. We did try and avoid this and re took alot of shots but it was very difficult.


TIME:
We decided to change the timing instead if the film being set in the 21st century, we decided to change the year.
To Victorian times.
We thought this would be a good idea because the buildings near dead mans walk were made in 1800s and thought it looked more realistic to the year then the 21st century.


STORY:
The story is about a young Victorian women, who is walking home through dead mans walk and she sees a ghost/spirit. One who was killed by the firing squad. She knew them.
She tries to get away by running and that's the opening piece of our film.