Pre-Production: Contingency Plans

1. Shooting on the tramlines at night time with a volunteer actor. (1st shot)

Potential Problems:

• The weather is bad (rain/snow etc.)

Resolution: Film it on another evening. As the tramlines are close to our accommodation, which means it won't be an inconvenience to change the plans last minute, especially because our actor lives with us too.

• We aren't permitted to film on the tramlines.

Resolution: To find another similar location, such as the train station. If we are not allowed to film on either of these, then we will resort to our previous storyboards of someone on a public bench, with a slow zoom out from the bottle of alcohol.

     2. Shooting at Cleethorpes. (2nd shot)

Potential Problems:

• The weather is bad (rain/snow etc.)

Resolution: To change the style of the shot seen as we will only be making one trip to Cleethorpes. Instead of involving the sun, we would involve grey skies. If anything, it is preferable to have bad weather because I believe it fits in with our general them of loneliness and isolation.

• If the tide is out.

Resolution: We will have to work around this. We can either wait for it to come back in, but depending on whether we will have time, we will just shoot on the sand or the pier. As long as there is a general beach setting for the audience to relate to our soundscape, then the scene is still being set.

• If the camera battery runs out.

Resolution: Pack plenty of spares just in case.

       3. Filming in the forest.

Potential Problems:

• Rain/wet weather.

Resolution: We will have to reschedule and make sure we regularly check the weather reports in preparation. We won't be able to film if the weather is wet because we will be filming a fire, therefore the ground must be dry.

• Not being allowed to make a fire.

Resolution: Make sure we have plenty of options and ask a variety of places if we would be allowed to film a fire, therefore we will be prepared. We won't be leaving it until last minute.