Planning: Choosing Locations

In order for my biopic trailer to be as realistic and effective as possible, I will need to choose locations that best fit my narrative and seem believable in the case of my footballer biopic short film trailer.  For the early parts of the trailer, I will need to find football pitches in a rural environment to give the youth team football a grassroots and real feel.

One of the first locations I thought would be most suitable would be the playing fields just outside Kings Sutton. This is because it has a full size football pitch and goals with nets. However, I may have to ask permission to use the football field from the local football club. I will also have to make sure that I conduct my filming at a time when the local team aren't playing. Therefore, timing my filming days will be crucial in order to use this location to film.

The second possible location that I could use for my biopic trailer could be Astrop Road playing fields in Middleton Cheney. There is a lot more green space and football pitches that I could film at rather than Kings Sutton. It may be easier to film in Middleton Cheney due to the amount of space I have, however, I may still have to get permission to film from the land owners or football club owners. I would still have to time my filming days because the local football club play there every Saturday or Sunday, therefore, it will be crucial for my project to be able to use one or two of these locations for my biopic.

The third possible location that I could use for my biopic could be the exterior of the Brackley Football Club Stadium, St James Park, which will be used for the part of the trailer displaying the main character's youth football career. However, I wouldn't be able to use the pitch to film my trailer as the pitch has to be done by the groundsman in preparation for club fixtures on certain weekdays and Saturdays or Sundays. I can film the exterior of the stadium as long as I can get written permission
from the club officials to film the stadium on non-matchdays so there are no members of the public that don't want to be filmed. I could also use the five-a-side pitch next to the ground to film parts of the trailer when the character is training as a youth player or when he is playing with his friends as a young boy. Despite that, I would still have to get permission from the pitch owners to film on their property for my biopic trailer.