Unit 2 part B: Plan the practical issues

• The project plan - extended 

We shot our film at an art directors house in Royston, Amanda Steckley. Some of the group traveled by taxi from Ely to Royston and rest of the group traveled by train meeting the taxi at Royston train station then travelling over to Amanda's house, I travelled there by car.

We shot our film on her plot of land and some surrounding small dirt roads at the back of her house. This location was perfect as we need a location that looked like it has been affected by an Apocalypse and this was it! this was the perfect place to do it, when we all turned up we saw potential in the location straight away and we took a walk around the field to decide where we was going to set up our props and equipment. We come across a bundle of trees and bushes that we thought would be perfect to set the 'fire' scene. The main location that we used was her field, the field was a good size as we could use it in different angles to make it look like it was shot in different places and so that the characters look like hey have been walking or travelling for a long distance. 

We  had to take a few precautions when filming as we had a fire scene so we had a fire extinguisher, fire blanket and a first aid kit at arms reach just incase any thing went wrong we could put the fire out and aid anyone that get injured.

We had quite a few props such as a 'rat' which was used as food for 'Sophia' it was only a toy rat that we got muddy so it looked more real. We had specific costumes that we wanted the actors to wear so that i looked like they had been out in the wild for a long time, we had a weapon that was made by our producer and art director, it was made out of a trowel and a wooden stick tied with some rope to make it look like it was a survival weapon made in the wild. We used a map of Cambridgeshire, for their map of where the "pick up point" was, we ripped it up and got it muddy to give it the proper outdoors experience. the reason I drove to Royston instead of getting the taxi with them was so that i had my car there as we used it as a prop in the film which had the "corpse" laying in and ended up leading the the infection and death of one of the main characters. When the main character got infected he spat out red slim out of his mouth in which was food coloring's and other foods mixed together to make a slushy mix, not harmful at all but the main actor had in his mouth during the shoot and spat it when when he became infected and this was a prop that was made my the art director as a last minute idea to make that he is effected more obvious to the audience.