Week seven -Location Scouting

As you will have already seen this is the location we want to shoot in . Although it is easy access and reliable I have some concerns about it , in terms of how we will properly use the space and still keep our modern take of gritty film noir mise en scene.



One of my concerns was the use of space. In order to make sure we have enough space to use the techniques we have learned e.g the 180 degree rule we must properly plan where things will be placed. The picture above illustrates one way in which we may place the table ; if we did it this way each person would be either to the let and right of this picture meaning that our camera shots would not show the door nor anything else that might obscure attention away from the actors although the room is bleak any way. This placement may change when we get to the space as we may decide that is not the best way to do things however for now this stands as we can use up our time more efficiently instead of wasting it moving things around.


Another massive concern was the use of lighting, the lighting in the room is quite bright as you can see and this is not held by that fact that the room is a bright reflecting colour (which mean light is brighter as it ray bounce of the paint more and are not absorbed). also circled on the picture is quite a large amount of natural lighting coming through that cannot be blocked , as a large amount of light coming from the long office lighting at the top of the room.The reason this is a problem is because the more lighting we have the less the scene fits the film noir feel we are going for with the interrogation. However there is a way we can combat this and use the natural lighting to our advantage




If we place the camera to shoot from behind 9 (as planned) but at a lower angle we will make is face darker just like in the movie review I did a few weeks ago. I cannot be sure this will work without trying first so I will try and take some photos of the use of lighting before shooting properly.
Also to make sure the light is not over powering we will have to film when it get darker which shouldn't be a problem as it is the winter and it gets darker sooner.







   This has been taken from Fehinti's blog. When Adam and Fehinti were at this location, i was given the task of researching fonts as to maximise the amount of work we got done in the short amount of time that we had.

Week five -Potential location

I found another potential location to use for our interrogation scenes. It's in Astley Cooper school and currently holds printers, a television, a cabinet, some lockers and what looks like art materials. The television would be perfect for our scene as we wrote a television into the last scene where the detective is asking 9 where Laura is. We would have to remove the art materials but the cabinet could be useful and so could the lockers but could equally bring town the authenticity. As i have never been into an interrogation room, i do not know what it generally contains but from my research i have gathered that interrogation rooms usually contain only a  table and two or three chairs.

   Our interrogation room will contain two chairs which would be authentic i think.

   The room i have looked at may be too cluttered and to remove the clutter may pose health and safety hazards. I will fill in a risk assessment for this location.

                                                    

Week three

Choosing a location
   We have decided that we will all individually think of places we can film our video at, carry out a risk assessment and feed back to the other members of the team. As next week is the half term we have decided to meet up on Monday and Wednesday to work on our video planning. On Monday we will try to visit all of the suggested locations and evaluate them as a group as to which would be best suited to our task.
   We are also individually creating a storyboard of a plan of what we think we should film to then again, feed back and choose the best parts of each storyboard and create one together that we will follow for our final video.

I was allocated the job of creating the risk assessment form:

Where is the location?
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Is the location inside or outside?
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Are there any electrical hazzards?
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If so, where are they and how can they, if at all, be solved?______________________________________________________________________________________________________

Are there any weather hazzards?
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If so, where are they and how can they, if at all, be solved?
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Are there any other hazzards?
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If so, where are they and how can they, if at all, be solved?
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Is the location well ventilated?
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Other notes
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