Pre-Production Planning

In charge of location imagery, decisions and prop research.

2nd Feb 2011

Before going to Balcombe tomorrow we looked up Balcombe Station on National Rail Enquiries and researched a map of the station.

Below are some pictures of the station from the National Rail Enquiries site which helped us to decide on using the station.

Tomorrow I will go to the station to get our own pictures and video of the locationa nd will also take a letter to the station asking if we can film there

3rd February 2011

Today I went to Balcome Station to get location research and get an idea of what kinds of work we can do with the location. I took photos of the station and also compiled a video of some of the shots of the station so we can gain a better perspective of the location.



ABOVE: A video i put together of some views from the station.

BELOW: These are the pictures I took of the location.

ABOVE: Shots of the station from around the bridge.

I ALSO NOTICED THERE COULD BE A FEW HEALTHA ND SAFETY ISSUES USING THE STATION AND THERE ARE SIGNS POSTED AROUND THE STATION STATING THEIR DANGER

I also spoke to someone working at the station about whether we were able to film there. He was the only man working there and said it needed to be passed onto his station manager but said he would deffinatley reply to our letter wether we can or not.

On the weekend I am going to get some picture sof the other location we may use for our thriller and will get these on the blog ASAP

9th February 2011

We have decided that we are going to use Chloe's house for some of the first scenes in our thriller opening. We are going to get photos and possible footage on friday and it will be posted here by friday evening.

However we have had no response from Balcombe Station from our letter. We have tried to phone them many times but the station doesn't seem to publicaaly show their station phone number. We are planning to overcome this by going to the station in person again.

23rd February 2011

For our thriller we are using two settings, the first being the train stationa dn the second is a girl's bedroom. For this we are going to use Chloe's bedroom. Below are some pictures of the room we may use...

We were originally going to use a creepy room with very lo-key dark lighting but we turned against this idea as it was misleading. In our story this room is owned by the person who has lost their daughter and of this person represents innocence and is not an evil character why would we need to make her room creepy and this would misrepresent the character and might confuse the audience. We can still use dark lighting maybe or a filter to create a sad mood but if the room is made sinister then the character inside is going to be portrayed as sinister as well which not what the character is. Therefore we arer going to use a normal girls bedroom which we can then make darker or lighter.

George