Peak District

The image above feature the type of roads I would like Jim and Shawn to drive through during the car scene, a field pictured above would also work where the car will be parked before they drive off. 

I plan to shoot in the Peak District for part of the film, the Peaks will be where Shawn and neighbour Jim will reside out in the open plains. I feel that this location would suit the aesthetic of the film, a contrast with the later scenes in the bar in Manchester, this contrast serves as both a stylistic choice and to express the distance between Shawn and his sister. For the opening shot that features Shawn running down a road toward the camera, I would like to shoot on the road that runs through Winnats Pass near Castleton, I picked up a Peak District magazine from a tourist information shop in Sheffield, Winnats Pass was on the cover, I thought it looked rather iconic and there seemed to be no road markings I liked this because it made the road seem even more rural and nondescript, important to the dream sequence as people wouldn't be able to decipher his location. I'm checking the weather conditions regularly and hoping that there will be mist or fog on the day we shoot, the fog is something I wrote into the poem that will open the film but I also experienced it whilst driving home through the Peaks recently and thought it would add character to the mood of the scene, almost surreal looking. 

Once the F5 camera is bookable myself and Tom will go out and find these locations and mark them on a map for reference when we come to film, we aim to capture the wide shots of the fields and hills before we start our week of shooting with actors. These shots will be used in the film but Ste the sound designer asked myself for some opening shots so he could layer some sounds to build an idea of what it may sound.