Research and Planning: Plan for the Week

This week, Adam and I are going to audition people for parts in our trailer.
In preparation for this, we are going to write the script.
This will also help us to finalise the plot and order of the entire trailer.

Research and Planning: Location Images

Below are the images from our location visits on Friday

Research and Planning: Letter to Air Raid Shelter

Above is the letter we are sending to Stockport Air Raid Shelter. The college have allowed us to have a piece of letterhead paper, so we will send the letter on that.

Research and Planning: Location Recces Plan

Below is a rough plan of the order we are going to visit our locations later today.

Research and Planning: Location Recces

Below are three of the location recces Adam has done ahead of our visits to the sites later today.

Research and Planning: Location Update

After discussion, Adam and I have decided not to film on Market Street in Manchester. This is due to the fact that the street is cobbled, and cobbles is something we have decided to associate with the underworld, rather than the real one.

Instead, we will do our filming in Dukinfield and Hyde.

Research and Planning: Plan for the Week

This week, Adam and I are going to finalise our locations. On Friday, we both have a free lesson, so will visit the locations from our list that we think are best and make sure that they are suitable, as well as doing location recces. Adam also had a strike of genius today when he thought of another possible location for our filming - Stockport Air Raid Shelters!

The shelters are located under Stockport Town Centre, about 6/7 miles away from our college, and are real life shelters used in WW2 - no pretending tunnels are underground - these actually are!

The tunnels are now owned by a company that sells tours to members of the public, so if we wanted to film there, we'd have to get in touch with them. We will see what we can do this week.

Meanwhile, we'll look further into props, particularly the badges and energy cylinder for the underworld, as we are having a few issues with how real they will look.