Craig: Locations

I was assigned to look into potential locations for our film. The location is going to be incredibly important, especially for the costume drama part of the film, there will have to be nothing that will give away the fact it is filmed as if it is part of the 21st century, so no noise from cars or anything is going to be vital. In addition to this, we are going to want an area which could be mistaken for Regency period, and on top of that, a lack of people, otherwise the whole thing will look silly.


As soon as we developed the idea of a film within a film and the main body was going to be a Regency period costume drama, one popular location around our town immediately sprung to mind, Christchurch Mansion. It has the Regency-style location and everything, the problems with it however will be other people and the vehicles, especially as it is very close to the town centre. As I do not have my own picture of this building myself I took this one off of http://www.eastsuffolklinewalks.co.uk/images/christchurch_mansion.png
Our next potential location is outside a house in Chantry Park, it resembles very much exactly what a period drama will have in the garden and the actual building itself, as the pictures below show, and the one issue will be we may have to get permission to film there, it is a very good location, perhaps better than Christchurch Mansion, but this will have to be discussed in future group meetings.

After searching around the whole of the local area, I did not search too far, as it seems as if we will have a huge cast, it will be difficult to get everyone in one place, and will have to be an appropriate day on top of this. I discovered the final potential location near the Chantry Park one, and confusingly enough it is in Chantry Park itself, literally not far away from the second location, but don’t get the two confused, they have very different qualities.

This location is just outside of the huge garden in the second location, and it is simply a pathway, a really old-style (possibly regency) bench, and a tree, and that’s it, possibly the most simplistic location possible, and as that park is in the middle of nowhere, there shouldn’t be any other people there (hopefully). The pictures below are some I took one morning recently, as well as the other Chantry Park ones. This location out of the three is my personal favourite, but this is to be discussed within the group in the near future.