Locations

For our main task locations was a key aspect of the idea. As he is running away from the urban enviroment we had to try and get both aspects of the urban and the vast open spaces of the beach. We researched our locations before we chose where to go using "Google Earth, Street View". This allowed us to plan our shot lists. We also checked the weather for each of locations before we went so we could maintain continuity in our sequence.

Below are some shots of the locations we used.

Train Station

This is where we filmed where the main character gets the train from. One of the reasons we chose this train station was the variety of shots we could acheive on the stairs also as it is not a very busy station there was less to worry about in terms of members of the public being in shot which could affect the continuity later when editting the piece.

Train to Ainsdale
Part of the opening piece features our main character sat on the train on his journey. For this part we took several short shots of the character from the same position we then used a fade transition and cut the shots together, this signified the characters journey, also it allowed us not to worry about continuity in terms of people moving around on the train.

Shore Road

This was the road between the character getting off the train and going to the beach. Although we didn't see it as neccesry we thought it would be good to have this part in the sequence as it shows the difference between dark grim brick urban and the naturistic open spaced beach, this signifies the characters escape from his troubles.

Sand Dunes at Ainsdale
One of the reasons we chose to film on the sand dunes as we found them interesting to look at. Also due to the different sizes of the dunes and the tunneling pathways it allowed us to create a more varied amount of shots, such as high angle and low angle shots.

The Beach
The whole reason we went to the beach for this was wide open spaces we could show. We chose to go to the beach rather than say the countryside where we could still have the wide open spaces but we felt with going to the beach we would be doing something different and we feel as a location it is visually good.

Shotlist - Main Task

Here is our proposed shotlist

1. Long shot of house from outside
2. Close-up of character walking out of door
3. Long shot of house from outside as character walks away
4. Long shot of character walking into station
5. Cut to medium shot whilst waiting at the station
6. Close-up as character looks at his watch, point of view
7. Long shot of character waiting, train pulls into shot
8. Medium shot of character walking onto the train
9. Medium shot from inside train, character takes his seat
10. Shot sequuence of character on train changing position (4/5 shots)
    
11. Close-up of characters face on the train
    
12. Medium shot of character walking towards the door
13. Shot from across the platform as train pulls away from revealing character on platform
14. Long shot of character walking out the station
15. Medium shot of character walking down the road
16. Low angle shot from the floor looking upto the character walking up a sand dune
17. Long Shot from atop the sand dunes looking at the character walking down upon the beach.
18. Medium tracking shot on the beach as the character walks along the beach
19. Close up on the characters face as he stands on the beach as he turns away
20. Medium Shot as the character walks away from the camera, with a the camera beginning to fade and blur.