Final Location Decisions

These photos were taken in the basement of Alice's house. Previously we were going to shoot in Ella's basement but realised it was too thin and there was much too much work to do to make it possible to shoot there. We did this reccie to make sure that this location was appropriate for our needs. 

The basement has 2 rooms, but we only need one of them. The doorway from one room into the other, can act as the opening to our party, as the character enters the party. Although there are some things in the basement these would all be moved out. We were also considering what we would want in the room to add to the mise en scene of our opening scene. We decided on a cheap old sofa that teenagers can hang out on, beer cans and wine bottles scattered around.

This basement also has a few alcoves, and corners, which have the potential to be interesting in a number of shots, with different activities happening within the alcoves.

There is a set of stairs leading from this basement too, where there is the potential to film our protagonist to walk up when leaving the basement close to the ending of our 2 minute sequence.

This is a good basement to use, compared to Ella's because there is much for space both for our actors and for all the camera and lighting equipment. It was much easier to move everything out of this basement and empty the room ready for filming. It is also much easier to set up the scene and the mise en scene here as the room has much for free space.