Our first choice in terms of what location we use would be in a car park, preferably the top floor. Organsing and booking an entire floor of a car park is hard on it's own but we also have to make sure that the car park we go for has everything we need.
As there will be two other groups filming in a car park we have to agree that we are all happy with the chosen location because we will all have to film there. We would likely have to book out more than on floor of the car park to not only cater for all three groups but also because there would be the potential issue of having the sound of other cars and people in the car park interrupting our shoot.
We know that what ever car park we decide it will have to be in Guildford because that the closets city that not only offers us a variety of possible locations. We could look at possible car parks in towns like Cranleigh however, unlike the other two groups filming on the day, we will use the cityscape to establish our location and also help with our narrative, so somewhere like Cranleigh is simply too small.
We will also have to consider the practicality of the car park in that we will be transported to Guildford in one of the mini buses that will probably be too tall to fit in any car park so we'd have to find a suitable location nearby.
Bedford Road Surface and Bedford Road Car Park:
Bedford Road Surface car park wouldn't be suitable because it's simply an open car park with no levels. However Bedford Road Car Park has a few levels however, it wouldn't fit the mini bus and there are very few nearby places where we could park it instead. The car park doesn't have a huge amount of levels so it would be hard for us to all shoot at the same time on various levels.
Castle Car Park:
Has the capacity to fit a mini bus and isn't too hard to get to. However it's in quite an isolated part of Guildord so any shots of the cityscape won't be as grand as we'd like. There also isn't an open top level, the top level of the building belongs to a different company.
York Road Car Park:
Has a reasonable amount of levels and is very spacious so we could easily all film on one level. However, we want to achieve quite an isolating and trapped atmosphere and a car park that's as large and open as this wouldn't have the same effect.
Farnham Road Car Park:
Leapale Road Car Park:
The top two levels are open with very easy access to one level just underneath that is also partly open offering us with three good options. It is in a fairly busy part of Guildford so the cityscape would be quite grand. The colours in the car park are quite cold which would suit our thriller. There is a small surface car park just opposite so it would be easy to park the mini bus.
Leapale Road Car Park seems to be the best option and the teachers are confident that we'll be able to book it and because the 10th, 11th and 12th floor are all in some way conjoined we'll easily be able to film all three thrillers at the same time.