Location, Location, Location

The perfect location is very important for our trailer because our film is mainly set outside so the landscape has to reflect the time period (early 19^th century) adequately. This meant finding a large out door space with beautiful scenery and very little modern objects that will spoil the allusion of it being the 19^th century.

We first thought of filming at Hardwood House in Harrogate because of the large grounds and scenery. It also has the manor house which if we got permission we could use in the background of one of our shots. But we found it was to hard to travel to and if we needed to re shot certain shots it would be hard to get to the location again.

So we decided to look at the local village of Bolton Abbey. Having visited the actual Abbey itself on numerous occasions we knew that it would be appropriate for our filming and be easy to access.

We re visted it a few times and took photos of appropriate landscape which we thought we could include in our trailer/ posters. These included:

· The Abbey itself:

· The River Wharfe:

· The Fountain:

· The small manor house:

· Manor house (scene of the ball):

All these were perfect to use in our trailer because they also fitted into the plot, the manor house will be the location of the main male protagonist’s house and will signify his middle/upper class. The foundation will be were they meet for the first time and the beautiful landscape will signify that they live in the country.

We based our trailer mostly outside because we found it difficult to find an old manor house which represented early 19^th century living and which we could film in. This wasn’t possible so we decided to film most of our trailer outside using the Yorkshire dales as the location. We also wanted to incorporate the winter weather into the trailer; this would signify to the audience that all this drama had happened in a short space of time.