Locations and their risks

Location 1 - Finaghy Train Station

One of the main filming locations is platform 2 of Finaghy Train Station in Belfast. This location is potentially the most problematic of all of our locations as there is a considerable amount of room for error. Potential problems include:

• The public - since Finaghy Train station is in a public setting, we have no control over commuters and their movements. We are hoping not many people will be travelling on the Sunday we are planning to film as we want to avoid people walking in front of the camera or disrupting filming.
• The train - there are a number of shots in this scene of the film in which we will need the train in the background since Ribh's character is travelling to the station. We need to capture Ribh getting off the train, meaning she will have to jump on and then jump off the train quickly before it leaves the station. This will be difficult to execute but we are hoping we will be organised enough to achieve this. We also need shots of the train approaching the station and we will need shots from different angles in a short space of time. To pull this off we plan to use two cameras of the same brand (Cannon EOS 1300D).

Photography of images from Locations 1&2 by 
Grace Magee, member of coursework production 
team

Location 2 - Grace's House

Conveniently Grace lives less than a five minute walking distance from Finaghy Train Station, which means we can shoot a number of scenes on one day. This will also be helpful when it comes to moving between sets and carrying equipment. In Grace's house we will only be filming in one particular room, one which we are familiar with. The layout of the room will be good for the overall visual result we are going for as the bed is located in a corner, cranny-like area of the room.  This makes it difficult for light to be exposed to this area - and this is exactly what we want. There are no evident risks with filming here as it is a safe location in terms of if something needs refilled we can easily do this without the worry of interference or anything going wrong since we are in control of this set.

Location 3 - Lady Dixon

In contrast to filming at Finaghy Train Station, we are not facing a time restraint with this filming location since we are filming on at Lady Dixon park on a completely separate day to lighten the workload. However, similar to the problem with Finaghy Train Station, Lady Dixon park is a popular public area. We hope that due to its large size, we will be able to find a quiet area to film in without any surprise cameos or interruptions from the public.
 All photos from Cherrie McIlwaine's Gardens Corner section on BBC Radio