Locations

For our advanced portfolio there are various locations that we are looking to use.

House setting - We will be using Laura's house as the setting for the scenes which include confrontation between the two main characters, Amy and Sam. The house will belong to Sam as he lives with his parents who throughout the film will not appear. We will show this by using post-it notes to imply that his family have gone out. So for example "dinners in the fridge love mum" will appear on the fridge, family photos will also be positioned around the house. This will convey a sense of a typical family to the audience and in a way will allow the audience to sympathise with the situation that Sam faces. The idea that he lives a normal life but is tied down with a girl who beats him.


Area of social congregation- We are currently deliberating on areas where we could show Sam out with his mates. Some areas that we have thought about include:
A pub
A park
College

Each location has potential, a pub offers us with a stereotypical male thing to do with his friends. Sitting in the pub with his mates. However finding a pub which will work around the lighting and our house location could give create some problems.

A park is also a typical place of meeting for people around Sam's age, however we need to ensure that we could choose a suitable location in the park, one with a children s playground right next to it would be off limits because there could be the potential of us filming near children. Various parks could include St Johns Park in Burgess Hill in addition to The Paddock and Malling Fields which are situated in Lewes. Another possibility is finding a suitable place on the Downs to film.

College
A college is somewhere where we could show Sam leaving with all of his mates. We all study at the same college and have various timings which allow us to come in and leave at the same time. It would make it more easy for us to find people to use as Sam's mates and it would make it easier in refilming. However the timings surrounding filming at college are essential as we need to choose filming times when loads of people are not standing outside the college as this may lead us to be distracted when filming.


Car
We will also be using two cars as locations for specific scenes. The cars will be used in driving to show Amy following Sam home and being possessive, we will use a myriad of shots to show Sam looking in his mirror to check if it is Amy following. By using the cars we able to portray how desperate Amy is to follow her boyfriend, she want's to what Sam is doing this and by having a scene shot in two cars we are able to show this.