Wednesday, 21 November 2007

Locations

It was important to find suitable locations to film, there are quite a few scenes in the film, they are as follows:

  • Pub/outside car park
  • John Clary's house (exterior and interior)
  • 3 x job locations that are different
Due to time shortage, we have managed to find some possible locations to film.

Pub/Outside car park

The pub scene will take place at night so it was bets to see how the scene swould look at night. At this location in Stafford there was a road very close but the noise was minimal. This photograph was taken around 4:45 and as you can see there is little traffic and no pedestrians. This would be an ideal time to film at this pub/car park.

This was pictured a few minutes later and in this image we can see a lot more traffic which could cause a lot of noise, especially at rush hour.

John Clary's House

John Clary's house is where the main part of the film takes place. The house should not be too big so as nobody has a chance to interact with each other but not too small so it does not look like a politicians house. Here are some of the possibilities:

House 1

This house was found locally and it had a good layout for how the scene would look. John Clary would walk down the stairs and instantly see Tom in the kitchen having breakfast or cereal. There are no rooms in between the stairs and kitchen so the reactions would be instant. There is also a lot of room (length) to create depth of field in the kitchen by moving the cameras and filming in the hallway.








This is a closer look at the kitchen, it is small and from a technical point of view it could cause problems as there is not a lot of space to work in especially if there are more than one camera, microphones and lights. However the small space would bring the characters together in an uncomfortable situation and almost forces them to talk which would be a good look.










In the same house we found a bedroom with a lot of space to film the scene with Tom and Sarah. The bedroom was plain and so it could look like a girls bedroom with a few props such as posters and teddies.





House 2

House 2 was located in stoke



This is the hallway from the front door, the stairs are in a suitable place and there is plenty of room to use cameras. There is also a phone in the room and so it would be very practical for the scene to have one.





























This is the back living room leading to the kitchen, there is a lot of space to film but the practicality is bad as a room next to the kitchen is needed where the argument between John and Sarah breaks out. The kitchen is also quite large and so there would be a lot of space between characters and it would be hard to film (unless using a wide angle lens)

House 1 seems the best choice

3x Job Locations that are different

For the location of the job interviews we looked around the Octagon building at university. There was a room with a few desks in and the odd computer screen. This room could easily be changed around to look like three different rooms. There is a bookcase on one side a window on the other and various chairs to change the appearance. This room could be accessed easily and is used very little and is the definite choice for the interviews.


In the closing scene of the film Tom is filling out the job application forms for jobs. We wanted a public place but quiet so we looked at Costa Coffee in Stafford Town. We decided to finalise the location and use it in the film.

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