The most important thing in our opinion was the location seeing as we needed a graveyard and a place we could make look like Vietnam. The school field looked to familiar and there were barely any trees, Milford looked good but still wasn't as good as we were hoping so in the end we decided to go to Cannock Chase. this was a good setting for the flashback in Vietnam because of the trees and wilderness. We mainly picked it because of the branches and trees and good places to duck into cover. We drove to a deserted part with trees everywhere with a stream running through the middle no-one was going to walk their dogs through it and it was away from any houses so we didn't have to explain ourselves to anyone at home. There was also a point we found that we used repeatedly because we could stand the camera up and have some really good environment shots. As seen in the second picture if you look closely Ben is in his full costume acting out the scene where he hides from the Vietcong because of the camouflage we had some points where we needed the character to move quite abruptly so people could see him but because of the whole scene being very fast paced it wasn't a problem.
The other location we filmed at was the German graveyard again on Cannock chase. Here we filmed the man walking into the Graveyard and the beginning and end of the flashback. We picked this particular graveyard because its set out like a war memorial there are clear lines of sight and rows of gravestones to choose from.
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