Moodboard #3 - Highgate Cemetary

The third picture along the top of the moodboard is another potential location - Highgate Cemetery. We got the idea to film in Highgate Cemetery after finding a massive cemetery in Paris where we got a few shots for our trailer. Highgate Cemetery is probably the most famous cemetery in England and as there are lots of famous people buried there, there are a lot of impressive looking and creepy graves. As the whole graveyard is covered in trees it makes it very dark and atmospheric in there, so this will add to the creepy mood of the graveyard. It would fit in very well with the plot of our film, as we are considering making a The Da Vinci Code style mystery/action movie. Graveyards are just the sort of places that these sort of films tend to go to, so I think that we could get some very exciting shots there.

The practicalities of shooting there are slightly more difficult. The cemetery is open for the majority of the day and is free for under 18s, which most of us are. However there may be a lot of people around and there may be security guards who might stop us filming. To counter the first of these we've found an inset day in the middle of the week, and as this is only a holiday for our particular school there shouldn't be too many people around - who goes to a famous cemetery in the middle of the week? I'm not sure what security will be like, but I'm sure we'll be able to get around it and that we'll at least be able to film something. The only other problem is that we won't be able to do so much planning in advance as we did with Trafalgar Square last year, as there aren't pictures that would show us the whole location and where all the interesting parts are.