Location hunting for the hanging person shot

Our thriller opens with a person who has been hung on a tree. Foe this we needed to find a location which would be appropriate. For this we intended to use a place which was open, and of course had a tree in it. Dave and Taylor had found a very good place to use in Ongar which was an open field with trees in the far distance. We can see how the field looks isolates which could create an enigma about the character who is hanging.

Although this is pretty much a perfect location I thought it would be a good idea to take photos in the nature reserve at Langdon Hills. I thought it would be good to show the group and then we may want to change our minds where we are going to film this.

This is the first part of the nature reserve. It overlooks farmers fields and if the picture was big enough you would see Canary Wharf but if we did film hear you would not be able to see it in the film anyway. The field is good because it gives you a wide view of a nice landscape but the lowest branch on the tree was very high. This means we wouldn’t be able to hang from it. Even if we did it would be to dangerous because it was at least 12-15ft.

A short distance away in the nature reserve there is a massive hill. As it is in a nature reserve there are trees everywhere but finding the right one is very hard.
Here you can see the hill is very steep and would be ideal for the footage of the hooded man running away or standing in the background.

I thought that this would make a good shot because if the barbed wire and the harsh image it portrays but it would be hard to see the person running away.

This was from the other side of the path and I thought that it was better. Because u could see the path clearly and it still had the barbed wire to give a harsh penetrating affect.

The best location to use for this shot is the open field and tree in Ongar as it portrays the best image and shows isolation of characters. We have also been waned not to use the woods as a setting because it just isn’t scary enough because it is what the audience are expecting to see, they may also be thinking “oh here we go again, another film in the woods.” We are trying to think out side the box and create as many enigmas for the audience to make them engaged to make them want to watch the whole movie.

-Bradley Hart