Group: Location Reccie Planning

Purpose:
The purpose of this location reccie was, for the most part, to give us a chance to practice filming on location. We found this much more complicated than anticipated, because it is impossible to predict things such as walkers, wildlife, or in our case, a man mowing his lawn loudly near where we were filming. Setting up the tripod on the uneven ground in order to get a decent shot was also very challenging, and in a few instances we fear that we may have unintentionally captured a shot at a canted angle, rather than being completely level.

Risk Assessment:
One of the main risks we identified was the weather. We were forewarned that recent raining had rendered the ground extremely slippery, and this made it quite treacherous to get around the wood. To minimise the risk we all wore suitable footwear, and were particularly careful around the more muddy sections of the wood.
Losing equipment was also a risk. We made equipment checks at regular intervals to minimise the risk of this occurring.

Planning:
By using this location we have learnt that filming in the woods can be quite difficult, therefore, for our real production, we will most likely chose a different location. As well as this, next time we think that the filming would go much faster and smoother if we properly plan out both a decent storyline, and a variety of shots which we will use, because we found that the filming process was very disjointed and ineffective, as we only had a rough idea of what we were doing.