Locations of our filming

When we first planned out what was to happen in our film opening, we knew that we wanted shots in a park and also in a graveyard. We all chose to go to Chorlton to do our filming, this is because it was the closest to the college and we also had a member of the group who knew the area well. We did our filming in Chorlton Park and also in Chorlton Cemetery. We chose to film in the cemetery, as cemeteries are known to be a very depressing place. A number of famous films that are thrilling, scary or even dramas are filmed in areas like this and we thought this was perfect for our location. Opening a film in an area like a cemetery brings lots of questions to the viewer’s head, for example “Why is he in a cemetery? Is he visiting a grave or just passing through?” etc.

The goal of when we went into the cemetery was to find a unnamed wooden cross for a grave, fortunately we found one and began filming. The reason we wanted an unnamed grave is so that we could keep the secret a little while longer as to who’s grave this was.

Also helpful was that there was a flower store very close to the cemetery; here we purchased our key prop, the flower, lily, which ties in to the title of our film. The purpose of the key prop was not only to act as a connotation of the title of the film but also to make the audience ask questions as to why the main character is holding this particular flower and also who this character is who is dead and in this grave.

The filming for the cemetery took around 4 lessons to complete, three visits gained all the shot we wanted but we went on the fourth time after realizing some shots were sloppy and had to be re-done. We first started filming in the local park for our memory scenes for the film opening; this took around 2 lessons to film. After a few sessions filming we all went into the cemetery, here we looked for a suitable location for the shots that needed to be done in here.

As earlier stated we had some shot in Chorlton Park (shots of memories of Lily in the story). The reason we chose this park is because it is where we would imagine you may take a partner on a day out, also the park can connote happy moments in life and this is what we wanted to achieve.