Film locations

1. Location Shots For Our Main Task
By Connor Cummings
By Connor Cummings
(With photo credits to
Cam, Zach and Louise)

2. Cookham Butchers
We, as a group, wanted to film the opening scene at the
Cookham Butchers shop in Berkshire. The idea is having
every shot in black and white to create an eery atmosphere.
Cookham butchers is local to our school and has a very
unique feel to it as it looks very creepy in black and white. The
opening will start with a closeup of a man cutting meat with a
square knife and in the background, the diegetic sound of a
radio announcing a murder. An old man will leave the shop
carrying a red bag which is the only item in the whole of the
opening scene that is in colour. The man will walk to the
railway station where he will get on a train to London
Paddington. In the train there will be a variety of closeups of
the bag to signify its importance to the development of the
opening sequence.

3. London Paddington
Another location where we intend to film is London Paddington
Station where the train from Cookham will arrive. The whole
concept of the opening to our film is that the audience never
see the bag being swapped from person to person. This is
effective as it creates suspicion as to why so many different
people are carrying this one bag. This concept will also
engage our audience as it will build anticipation because they
are to trying to link the beginning scene of the cutting of meat
with the bag being passed around London. What we want from
these shots is for a different man to step off the train carrying
the bag to travel with it on the Bakerloo line. The old man who
started carrying the bag at the beginning is no where to be
seen. We chose Paddington as a location because it is easy to
access via train and is a main hotspot for travellers

4. Conduit Street
One of our ideas for street locations is Conduit street located
near Oxford Circus. Oxford Circus is on the Bakerloo line from
Paddington and so we thought as a group, Conduit street would
be a convenient place to film. My father’s office is also located on
Conduit street and we have this office as a location to film if we
want to have an office scene. Tumi (left) is a bag shop located
just around the corner from Conduit street. We thought that a
person carrying the bag could walk into this shop to meet
another courier who would walk out of the shop. This is was an
idea that developed when we visited London and is yet to be
finalised.

5. Another street in which we plan to film on is Carnaby
Street. Carnaby Street is very near to Conduit street
and this would be easy to get to. This street is
renowned for its shops and attracts many tourists in
London. We would like to include this street in our film
opening due to its location and popularity.
Carnaby Street

6. Piccadilly Circus
We decided that Piccadilly Circus would be a good
place to film as it is well-known and is easily
accessible. The low angle shot and the over the
shoulder shot of Zach are the types of shot we aim to
use when filming in Piccadilly Circus. The black and
white filter looks very effective especially with the
low-angle shot as it creates a very cold, dark
atmosphere that could possibly depict the courier’s
sinister attributes

7. Public Telephone box - Outside Trafalgar square
When travelling in London, my group and I came
across a telephone box on the outskirts of Trafalgar
square. We would like one of the courier’s to place
the bag outside the telephone box and go inside to
make a call. Whilst on the phone, an individual
walks behind the box and the scene cuts to a
person carrying the bag to Trafalgar square. This
idea is very effective as it helps to continuously
build mystery and anticipation

8. Trafalgar Square
Trafalgar square is another location for our filming of our main
task. It is an iconic location in London and one where we are
keen to film in. When the bag reaches Trafalgar, we would like
the person carrying the bag to enter the art gallery with
someone else walking out of it. The exchange is still mysterious

9. Waterloo Station
Waterloo Station is where we would like to film the majority of
our underground scenes. Waterloo Station is very
contemporary and has an interesting design and so this
compelled us into wanting to film in this underground station.
We intend to film shots of the tube doors opening and the
courier walking onto the tube.

10. London Eye

11. Saint Paul’s Cathedral and Millennium Bridge