LOCATION
Pleasure Park is a fictional and failing amusement park. Location choice was important for audiences to believe the park was real. The filming location had to be real, not an amusement park built just for the show. It is also cheaper in the long run to use an existing location. The location has to be somewhere that looks like it could be unsuccessful. The final location chosen for Pleasure Park was Pleasure Beach in Skegness
PLEASURE BEACH, SKEGNESS
Botton's Pleasure Beach is a family amusement park in Skegness. It is home to 24 rides, 4 of which are roller coasters.
Pleasure Beach is a perfect location choice for Pleasure Park because:
- It's right next to the beach
- It's situated in a town that could work as a failing seaside town.
- Has a good number of rides, which is good for background in scenes.
- It looks a lot like how Pleasure Park would look if it were a real amusement park.
By using a real location, it will most likely work out a lot cheaper than building a fake amusement park for filming purposes. Most scenes in the show will take place in the park.
If the show were real, it would've filmed during the springtime of 2017 when Pleasure Beach is closed to the public. According to their website, the park is open from May-September, so the show would be filmed outside of those times to avoid disruption. This would also then leave enough time for the show to be put together in time for it's January 2018 launch.