Planning; choosing an idea

Things to consider

- Public location; If it is a public place, then people could get in the way of filming which causes delays and wastes time.

-How seriously the actors would take it; It's easy to make a generalisation based on what you know about the actors, but you don't know how seriously they are going to take it once on location and in the midst of acting out the scenes. Also in acting, it is very easy to mess up lines and mess around, which then wastes more time.

-Lighting; Even though the natural lighting would define the features and work well with the camera, we need to consider which areas may need extra lighting and whether it is actually light enough to use without unnatural lighting or not.

-Background noise; Whilst engaged in dialogue, there are environmental factors that could ruin the tension created including birds (such as pigeons and doves), tractors and wind.

-Weather; In order for the shots to make sense, the weather has to be the same in all of them. Due to this limiting factor, we can then only film at a certain time of day (between 12-3pm) and certain weather conditions (cloudy) so it doesn't affect lighting or damage camera equipment, which then wastes time.

-Location factor; Our location is quite remote (even though available to public walkers) meaning that there is quite a walk to get there, which wastes time left in the day to film.

Logistics

At this time of year, the days are a lot shorter and darker which leaves us with a limited time to do filming. So that it would be convenient for both the actors and the media group, we agreed to do filming at the weekend when we all had the time and convenience, as well as daytime light to film with. So the daylight was the same brightness in all our shots, we decided to limit ourselves to filming between 12-3pm on Saturdays and Sundays. 

Because our chosen location is open to the public, it means we don't have to spend time chasing down land owners to get permission to film. In terms of cost, we need to consider travel costs on bus when lifts are not available (usually between £2-£4 depending on location) but also makeup needed for the corpse (£5-£10) and the mask required for the killer (£3-£5).