Location Scouting

For the location scouting, we as a group visited the various locations we had in mind for our opening sequence. Finding the right location is a very important tasks due to it being linked with the mise-en-scene. Not only does a location set the setting but it tells the audience a lot about the character itself. For example, if a establishing shot is presented to the audience of London then the audience would automatically link that the character might be struggling, very modern, maybe rich and posh. Also from this shot they can also foretell that the story would happen in many different locations in London which suggests that it is a grand film.

Morden Underground Station

The locations which we had decided on were; Morden Underground station; Morden Library and a Room. We decided on going to Morden first, in order to talk with someone who would be able to grant us permission to film. However we had to return disappointed as we needed the officials to give us certificates to film both at the Library and the Underground station. We did try to contact those officials but the film department at 'TFL' would not receive our calls, therefore we wrote them an email hoping that they will get back to us in time. At the library we were granted permission but we had to wait for at least two weeks to get a certificate to do so,
which would be too late for us.

Morden Library

Because we can not confirm that we would be able to film at those locations, we decided to get our back-up idea locations sorted. For that we would just need a library and an art room, which we could easily access at school. However we still needed to be 100% sure that the school would allow us to film there. Once we spoke to the care taker, who would be at school on the Tuesday during half-term, if he could open doors for us, we received a positive answer.