Initial location planning

Because Annie and her family are middle class, I need to find middle class locations - apartment blocks etc. to produce a reiki for my trailer. I will need both a young boys and a young girls bedroom which is easily accessible to me because of my age and I have many friends who would be willing to lend me their bedroom for an hour or so to complete the scenes that need to be shot in these locations.

I also plan to have a pier as I want Annie to be from Herne Bay, in Kent. The reason I wish for Annie and her family to be from a sea-side town is because I feel that the seaside is a very macabre place, many bad things could happen. I wish for many small aspects of my trailer to hint at the impending tragedy of my trailer.

I also plan to call a hotel and use a corridor and room. I will hopefully be able to use the Chaucer Hotel in Canterbury so that these shots can be completed ahead of time to the shots in Herne Bay - which may take longer and keeping the hotel in Canterbury helps me to go back if I need to re-shoot.

I have looked into locations that are commonly used in Social Realist films such as Trainspotting, This is England, Fish Tank, Shifty and Ken Loach film's such as ''Poor Cow''. Social Realist film's tend to use every-day locations such as schools, housing estates etc. in order to be as true to life as possible.