Recce

After deciding our final idea and planning what we want to show in the opening sequence, we three met on a Sunday to look at the places Paris had on her mind- her neighbourhood in Greenford. We first looked at the path near a community school and thought we can start the sequence from that location where our character Grace is shown walking.

This paths lead to a church and we decided to include some ‘graveyard scenes’ in our production because they are associated with horror, creepiness and silence. It’d also seem a bit enigmatic as we see Grace walking into the graveyard for no apparent reason and then come running out looking very scared.

Lorraine who had agreed to be ‘Grace’ lived very near the church and we didn’t have to worry about anything like where to use the bathrooms, change outfits (not that we wanted different clothing), place to stay and keep the equipments if it started raining and so on.

 

We wanted some scenes at a cafe/restaurant where Grace is seen writing in her notebook with untouched/hardly touched food or coffee on the table. We asked the cafes in Greenford whether they’d allow us to film for a little while later in the week. One of them agreed and we were told to come after 3 on Tuesday or Thursday which is when we’d planned on doing filming.

We wanted a place to show Grace crossing the road and chose this place which is near the school. It was Sunday and all was very quiet. It seemed likely that there would be school children and other people on the day we film so we’d chose the road in front of the church as an alternative.

We choose an empty bus (Upper deck backseats) as one other place to film and finally Paris’s living room where Grace is seen writing and then tearing her notebook.

We have altogether chosen 6 locations and we’d be all set to start filming once I finish making the storyboard.