Group: Wilderness Wood Location Recce

What's the Purpose of the Trip?

The purpose of the trip is actively searching and analysing areas in which we think filming a horror film would be effective. We shall do this by sampling the area with still shots and takes. As a group we feel woods would be a conventional starting point on which to develop ideas to film horror.

Risk Assessment

a risk assessment aims to identify the possible dangers of the visit and helps us analyse how to reduce said dangers/ risks.
We have identified for Wilderness Woods:

• Protruding roots on the ground could be a trip hazard for those wandering around. this could cause some form of injury or lead to the damage of equipment if it is dropped. to minimise this risk, care must be taken whilst walking with equipment, always looks where you're going.
• Poisonous mushrooms could lead to poisoning etc, to avoid this, leave the mushrooms alone.
• Slippery leaves/ ground, may lead to people slipping over and hurting themselves in all manner of ways. to avoid this wear grippy footwear and watch where you are stepping.
• Rain can lead to people getting soaked and catching a cold, or it may lead to electrical and mechanical equipment getting damaged. to prevent this happening we shall wear/ carry with us waterproof clothing and umbrellas to help protect ourselves and equipment if it stats raining.

So what's the Plan?

we have decided for Wilderness Woods to try out some supernatural elements of horror. we thought for this we could incorporate some form of movements like moving leaves, we would achieve this by moving string beneath the leaves. another thing we could incorporate is some high angle shots to emphasise how isolated the woods are. We will also try panning shots and tracking shots to see the effects. we can incorporate some props such as creepy dolls or masks to use in our recce to experiments with possible shots and effects around them.

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