Major Project- Locations

To make sure that we had the locations that fit the script I needed to go through the script and write down how many locations we would need, the criteria for the locations e.g tree stump, bench. This lead to scouting locations or looking at the pre-production book and making sure that not only did we get the locations already scouted but that we got new locations that were added to the script.

For permission for the locations I had to contact Kent Film Office and fill in a few of their forms in which I found that we have a lot of dates and locations to plan for.

This was the first application for locations, this then grew due to changes in the script. There is only one issue that is currently being handled due to the lack of information about Barming Woods. Therefore the Barming Woods scenes have now been filmed at Quarry Woods. Quarry Woods was obtained by contacting Kent Wildlife directly instead of contacting Kent Film Office.

We are currently still hoping for permission for Barming Woods as we would like one of the locations this has lead me to contact Barming Parish Council. We would like to film in the highlighted square, this has been sent to the parish council in hope that they know who owns the land. 

Update from Barming Council, they were able to find the owner of the land and sent me the contact information for the agent that handles these types of enquiries, I have contacted him and he has said that he will talk the request over with the land owner. We were not able to secure Barming Woods but we did find some where else called Holborough Woods, Kent Wild Life, were able to show us some images and where it was. By contacting Ray Lewis we were able to get the permission, although we couldn't scout the location and just had to turn up on the day, from google images we were able to see if the area had the criteria that we needed. 

While looking at the images and the Kent Wild Life website we could see there was a large area that fit the criteria needed in the script.