Amandeep Sall: Location Reccies:

Location 1:

The Chadwell Heath Academy basement.

Reason:

The reason why we picked this location was because the interior of the basement is very dark and gloomy - much like a British Social Realism movie. Its abandoned, not much happens in it which makes it an ideal place for the opening sequence due to the actions that take place. The whole point is that it is meant to be quiet so it seems like a place where potentially drugs can be sold.

Problems we might have:
One of the main problems we may have is the accessibility of the basement. We will have to ask the caretakers when the basement is available because other students may want to use it too. Other problems we may have is the lighting in the basement. The lights in the basement may not offer the type of image we want for our opening sequence. We may not have enough time given to film in the basement so might have to come back a few times.

Location 2:

Car Park (basement exterior)

Reason:
The reason we chose this location is because in our opening sequence we need to include someone looking from outside witnessing the protagonist being arrested. It also gives the audience someone else s perspective of what is going on and also provides the audience a better understanding of where the location is.

Problems we might have:
As it is a car park, it may be busy a lot of the time and there may be a lot of noise in that area too. This means we have to shoot at the least busy possible time to make sure there is no interruptions. We will need a car parked in a specific position so we can film from an over the shoulder position of the car. For this we might have to get permission from someone we knwo so they can position their car in the place we need it.

Location 3: School Hall

Reason:

The reason we chose this location was because at the end of our opening scene we see the protagonist going to court and being sentanced.We though that the hall resembled a court room really well and was an ideal choice.

Problems we may have:

There may be exams or assembly's in the hall which means we have to be careful what time we film. Also we have to make sure that it is quite outisde the hall too as we need there to be silence when filming in he hall.