Research into Location

Our location will be quite controlled as the shots take place in Cally’s house, Cally’s road, Connor’s garden and Bluewater. This makes the filming easier to control as we can access Cally’s house and road easily and film as much as we need.

First location: Cally’s Spare room.

We used an empty spare room in Cally’s house. We covered the windows with a dark blanket in order to make the room dark with only a torch producing light. This was successful as it created a deep blue tint that corresponds with our blue and orange colour tones that are highlighted in our research. 




This was the room before we altered the lighting. It was too bright and didn't create the correct mood or tone.











This is how we blocked out the light. We then turned the light off and only used a torch as the source of light.

This is Cally sitting in front of Connor to judge how the close she needed to hold the torch to his face. This is how the footage was created.











This was after we had changed the lighting.

Final product compared to our initial research:

These are print screen from  previous lighting research. As you can see the pictures are similar as they have a unique blue tint and are surrounded by darkness with the light only focusing on their face.

Second location: Bathroom

We also used Cally’s bathroom to film the bath scenes, this was chosen as the marble on the walls produce an orange tone when the lighting is controlled with only a lamp shining through the crack of the door.

The images on the left are the ones before the lighting has been controlled, as you can see they are too bright and they lack a suitable tone. The images on the right are shots of the footage once the lighting has been controlled. We put the lighting behind the door and shut the door slightly so that the light was only coming through a very small gap.

Third location: Cally’s Road and the Bridge

Cally’s road was used because there is a bridge that overlooks the cars beneath us. This location was important as it visually represents time passing and life passing him by while he is stuck in his depression and missing life because of his excessive drinking. 



Fourth location: School Corridor

We used our school corridor to film the phone, clock and teddy bear scene. This was a useful location as we could easily control the lighting by asking the teachers permission to turn off the lights. The location was convenient as we could re-film it easily. These scenes were filmed in the corner of the corridor. We borrowed a desk from a classroom, added a blanket, some supplies and a boys school bag which was borrowed from one of the students. We did set up the lights however they were too bright, therefore we used a torch to highlight the mise-en-scene yet keep most of the scene dark. 

This is a photo of how the desk was set up to look like a boys room, this wasn't shown in the video on its own, we created a pan shot that moved across the location and focused in on the phone. The location was important to create the right tone however it wasn’t a main feature.

This is the clock scene; we attached it to the white brick wall as it is visually successful as the hard brick walls highlight confinement. We turned off all of the lights and held a torch on the clock from the left in order to create a shadow on the right. This makes it appear quite sinister as the clock appears 3D ensuring we get the sense of time passing. The white walls and white clock face link to our desired mise-en-scene as our model wears white throughout and Lily wears a white dress in the bath. 


This is the phone scene that was shot in this location, despite you not being able to see the mise-en-scene it still works as the lighting is dark until the phone lights up, this is successful as the reason for his depression, which can have the colour connotation of black, is because of the drink which is what his friend is telling him to do in the text. The mum’s text comes first which highlights there is a problem, the fact the friends text comes through second and removes the mum off the front screen highlights how he will choose alcohol.

Fifth location: Cally’s Garden

This was shot in Cally’s garden on the patio. The brickwork is successful as it has a slight orange tint to it which relates to our colour scheme and previous research for the bath scene. The ash is shown on the floor which adds to the tone and adds a blue colour scheme that matches the lighter and his shoes.

Sixth location: Bluewater Car Park

Originally we wanted to film Lily running down a corridor in Bluewater, however, we were unable to get permission to do this. Therefore, this location changed. We chose the corridors as they were grey brickwork which would have given the tone of isolation and related to the brickwork behind the clock. The walls and barriers are important throughout as it represents our models situation. We decided to still film the running scene but to try it in the car park which ended up working better than we had planned. It was quite dark as it took us a while to get denied permission. The addition of the street lamps and car lights worked well as it became quite sinister and scary.

This is the running scene the car lights behind her work well and the cars and limited lighting creates the correct tone.

The image on the left shows the angle and shot I had from my position. In the image on the right you can see where I was standing and filming from. This change of position and angles worked well as we can edit them together to create an erratic feel to the scene. 

These locations vary as each shot needed to be different to highlight the passing of time despite the state of our model being the same throughout. This is to highlight the depth of his depression and alcohol abuse. The locations vary from dark and light as this highlights the ellipsis of time. The dark lighting reflects his state of mind and the sinister aspect to why Lily doesn't feature in the video throughout. The daylight is used to focus on the bottle and the burning of the photos as dark lighting would have ruined these specific mise-en-scene details.