Final location decisions

Originally, in regards to filming location, we planned to shoot within a local Church ground, specifically a graveyard, to help establish the dark and gritty tone we wanted to create in our film opening. However, after having looked at multiple locations that fitted our criteria and denied by the Vicars, we soon realised that we would have to adapt our script and narrative for the sake of making our filming location purposeful. We then looked back at our film's concept and discussed as a group what kind of locations would be fitting for our main protagonist whilst also conveying the drama genre in a stereotypical light (with the settings lacking vibrancy and visually informing the audience of the films mood and tone).

Below are pictures of the Church grounds in comparison to the park we used instead:

 

We wanted to have quite a realistic and naturalistic setting, for the sake of incorporating verisimilitude, so although the park and church locations are different they do share similarities. The fact that a park is usually a more common place for social interaction also helped to distinguish our main protagonist abnormal contemplation, making his behaviour all the more enigmatic and thus intriguing. To conclude, having our original preference of location denied by their rightful owners meant we had to spend extra time to change our narrative so that it fitted a more convenient and public setting, but over all I think our opening is now better, from both a  visual and symbolic perspective.

This is the bench we are going to use, it is isolated, which also symbolises the fact that Jake Schofield is now alone, without his best friend, Mark Hitching.

This is where we are planning to have a panning shot to reveal the bench, the long pathway connotes the fact that Jake Schofield now has to carry on his journey alone.

This is the bridge where Jake Schofield will contemplate his life. We thought this would be the ideal spot as it the long path leads to the bridge. Which is where the end of the sequence ends.

~ Ryan Chapman and Christina Fraser ~