Location Hunting

 Monday 6th Feb 2022

The location of Shere 

Our initial idea from the start was to have a village location. In all three of our draft ideas we wanted to film in Shere as it is a location that is close to school and also has a few key shops in it. Our requirements for the place we want to film in has to include a pub, cafe and a bridge/wall. In Shere there are two pubs. One is the William Bray and the other the white horse. Preferably we want to film in the William Bray as it has an outside sitting area which is in front of the pub. Another thing that we think would be useful to have is the pub in walking distance from the cafe as in our first idea we had our main character walk from the pub to the cafe in a continuous shot. Preferably we wanted the cafe to have a big window at the front of it so we could film outside the cafe looking in. My grandma's friend owns Hilly's cafe which is perfectly in walking distance to the pub. The cafe also has a big window at the front of it which is perfect for our scene. For another location we want to film extra shots around Shere. Luckily Shere has a graveyard and a big wall so we can our protagonist sitting on it. The graveyard is very effective as the genre of our title sequence is crime and drama which gives the audience more anticipation for the rest of the film. The graveyard in winter also is covered in frost which will look cool on camera. Another extra scene we want is a shot of the wife sitting on a wall smoking by herself. Shere has many walls which would work for this shot as Shere is in the middle of the countryside. On shoot day we have a few ideas of which wall we want to film old but the one we choose is dependent on the weather and how busy the village is on.

This is a screen recording of all the possible locations in Shere: