Pre-Location Hunting

For Locations I need places where there aren't many people in case of continuity errors and getting permission to film. If I were to film in the city during the day it would be almost impossible if I wanted to use two show of the same scene, but recording at different times, so I would have to go late at night for no people. My main idea was to stage it late at night, but this raises the issue of lighting. So I went for the filming period around 4-6 when it starts to get darker. My main idea was to be mainly focused around backstreet areas, and forests/countryside.

Backstreet Areas/Quiet Streets
The positives about using a street is it seems to be a popular scene for similar films. Although of course those films had high budgets and made their own sets, where as I will be using places already existing. More buildings and structures will allow for better shots, angles and different types of  parkour moves. If I can scout out enough areas and have multiple options so if when i come to film and one location has become unavailable, I have back ups. I think the main problem I will face is finding somewhere with good structures, and it have no one there or not be on private property.


Forests/Countryside
These will make filming very easy with there being no people, except from the occasional dog walker or runner which I can wait to pass, otherwise there will be very little continuity issues and sounds problems. I was initially thinking to film in mouse hold since there is such a vast amount of space and landscapes, but i thought of several problems; since I don't want to film too late, I would be filming at a time when there are cars about, mouse hold is a very public and popular place so there will be a lot of people/noise, and also alongside the cars if the lighting. If i were to film when its lighter, then there will be more cars. I have been researching other areas and places such as Thorpe and Flordon offer good forests and very little people/cars to cause noise disturbance.

Other Options
I would be brilliant if I could find abandoned buildings, such as the ones on Jack, Fabians and Wil's fairy tail story. When Jake is being chases, or stopped to question what he has been burdened with, these would provide excellent spots to film in.

Forest/Countryside

Flordon offers a fairly big area of woodlands (bottom centre of the google maps image) and barely any cars go up and down. This would make filming easier since sound wouldn't be a major issue. The only problem is how far away it is and finding areas which will allow good parkour shots and landscape views. 

The area of the woods, taking up the middle part of the screen shot, will be the area i will be filming my forest scenes in. There is a trail through here making access to it quite easy, and it has some open areas meaning there will be more possibilities for parkour moves, different angles and scenery

Backstreets/Streets

Chapel Field gardens seemed like an ideal place to film, I could go later at night meaning there won't be anyone around, and it should be fairy well lit at night a swell. The area has a big area with different objects such as the playground and fences which I can easily set up a camera and capture them being jumped over/ran across

I haven't had any good ideas come to mind yet, but any street where I can film without there being
busy traffic or loads of pedestrians will be perfect. Although it would be easier to use completely deserted locations, having some people would make the film more realistic. The only problem filming in a public place is some people might not be ok with being filmed or in the background. And I would also have to find someone willing to be in public and filming, which might be difficult.

Other Options

I will ask Jack/Fabian/Wil where the house they used in their production is, and I believe that it is in a field and has no houses, so this will allow me to film easily and also use my drone. If there were houses I would need a permission to use a drone which might not be worth the effort, or have negative results meaning I can't use it.