Mitre Square Location Research

This is one of the potential locations for our film trailer of Blind Mans Buff.  We have decided to do a video of the location because it shows a more in depth view of the location and we can explain why certain aspects of the location would either be ideal for our film or if they are not useful for our film.  This video that we have shot is from Mitre Square.  It shows the street and parts of it that may be useful to us and parts that are not.

The first seciton you see in this video is an staircase with a gate in front of it.  This could potentially work and be good for our film because with the right sound and lighting we would be able to create a scary atmosphere.  It could also represent a hiding place for one of our cast whether they were shown to be hiding from Jack the Ripper or whether they were Jack the Ripper themselves.  However they may be a continuity error if we use this.  As you can see in the short section of the filming there are a lot of colourful rubbish in the stairway.  These things would not have excisted at that time in history and this would therefore create a continuity error.  We obviously know that there may be continuity errors due to the locations we have chosen to film in and the fact that there have been massive changes since the 19th century in London however we want to try and reduce them as much as possible.  The next part of the filming shows a bench.  The bench appears to be old.  This is good because then it would be believable that a bench like this may have been around in the 19th century.  At the back of the bench there is a square of soil.  This could be useful to us.  However as you can see there is a street near the bench which has cars in.  When we go to film it is more then likely there will be similar cars there.  This limits us to either close up shots or mid range shots.  We will be unable to do long shots or establishing shots because the cars may be included and this is obviously not good for our film.  As you can see later in the filming Mitre square has been modernised since the time of Jack the Ripper.  There are now restaurants, roads and streets.  All of these things create continuity errors and will not have the same effect compared to somewhere where these continuity errors would not occour.

In conclusion we believe that this location may not be best suited for us.  The main reason for this is the massive amount of continuity errors that could occour whilst filming.  We may use it however we will not do extended filiming here and we will use other locations we have looked at.