1. Location
for the opening title
sequence of my thriller film

2. The idea…
 As
Rachel and I decided that we wanted
to use the theme of Brownies and Guides
throughout our thriller film, we needed the
perfect location to set up tents, logs and
campfires.
 We came up with suggestions of open
fields or activity centers where it would be
easy to create the atmosphere we
wanted, as opposed to a false set.

3. Close to home?
 Before
the school year had started, I
recently moved house. At the back of my
house, there’s vast fields, woods and even
a nature reserve. This was a plausible
location as to where we would shoot our
thriller film. I looked up some details and
discovered that it is actually common for
people to go camping there. It would
additionally be easy to gather all the cast
and crew to the set.

4. Bentley Priory

5. But…
 Although
the Bentley Priory Nature
Reserve was close to home and ticked all
our boxes, we decided that this was not
the right choice for us as we were unable
to create a campfire there as it is public
property.
 Since the campfire, is such a crucial part
of the mise-en-scene of our title
sequence, we decided that this place
was not for us.

6. Activity centers…
 As
Rachel is a Brownies and Guides leader
herself, she came up with a listed of
different places she had been camping
before.
 Together, we cancelled out all the options
that were too far from home or not
suitable for what we particularly
wanted, and came up with a short list of
sites and activity centers that would fit the
bill.

8. Northern Heights

10. Well End

12. Phasels Wood

13. Conclusion…
 These
were the three locations we
narrowed the list down to, but in the end
it was the Phasels Wood Activity Centre
that we picked to film our thriller title
sequence in.
 We chose this location as it is only a 20
minute drive from our houses and was
exactly where we imagined the scene to
look like in our minds.

14. Can we get it?
 Once
we had chosen this location to film
in, we called up the activity centre and
explained what our situation was and when
we wanted to film by.
 Since Rachel was already well known
there, they were more than happy to
comply and told us to just email them
before we wanted to come and then they
would set everything up for us, tents and
campfire included.