Setting|/location planning

Settings/Location

Our actors are teenagers still attending college. However because it’s the film opening we need to build the characters profile up in the opening, so we decided to show their daily lives, what they do in the morning. So in the beginning the characters are shown in their house/location to show the contrast between the boy and girl. Poor and wealth. Me and Fabiha had many location ideas because we were just planning and imagining if they would be suitable for our characters. However we ended up chosing a different one at the end.

INITIAL LOCATION:

For the female character, we first decided that Tredegar, Bow would be the perfect location due to how clean and posh the area looks. It contains houses that look similar to the ones in Chelsea, therefore really push and white with nice flowers and plants outside each door and a really nice park which will complete the overall setting  of the girl. Tredegar rapresents a location a typical middle/ high class family would decided to live in and our female character in fact comes from a middl/ high class family background. An additional reason we thought Tredegar, Bow would be a perfect location is because it is 20 minutes away from our Sixth Form which is uote close therefore we do not waste too much time on the journey.

FINAL LOCATION:

After a few meetings with my peer, we decided the actual locations. We thought it would be better if we filmed somewhere closer and this park is literally 5 minutes away from our college. It contains same elements as Tredegar Park does such as the flowers, plants benches, trees etc... For the girl's location we decided we would choose a clean, quiet area. This is because it will further convey the message that the girl's lifestyle is a lot more different than the boy's. We chose a speficic park, Stepney Green Park. Me and Fabiha personally chose this park due to how clean it is and due to the sorroundings and elements the park has. It has clean grass, trees, benches, walking paths and flowers which will show the audience how well kept the area is, which further demonstrates how posh it is. In addition, the buildings around the park are also well kept and quite modern.  


The female character's house is in Chadwell Heath due to some restrictions. We could not film in a house in Tredegar because we needed to get into the house in order to films some scenes such the girl's bedroom. If we were to do that in someone else's house that we do not even know it would most likely not happen because someone unknown would not really let us in their house and film. That is why Fabiha used her friends house to film. That was the only place available at the time, therefore we filmed there. The hpuse is not the one in the picture but it is similar and middle class people live there. We could've rented a hpuse or apartment but due to our low budget we had to get someone to let us film in their house.

The actor's location is quite the opposite compared to the actress's. He lives in a rather poor area, in the East London estate. We filmed in Stepney.  His specific location was chosen carefully because of the charasteristics found in the area. It included dustbins, littering all over the grass/streets, clothing drying on banlconies, rusty doors/gates etc... It contains dustbins everywhere which is almost a sign of poverty and there will be shots of litter on grass to further demonstrate dirtiness and messiness. The blocks just complete the settings due to how they are classified as a poor and trashy type of housing. I think that the colour of the building is really suitable for our character and his personality because it is a dark brown colour which links with the boy's dark personality. We might add a shot of a park around hat area and we will try find a park that shows blocks at the back so tht it goes better woth the paralleledit and we can shpw a greater contrast between the male and female character.