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St. Andrew’s Catholic School

Unit G324: Advanced Portfolio in Media

Locations

1. A member’s house in the Wells (The green

way)

We have decided to use this location of a park in The Wells, because it is local, and it has a large swing in which is going to be iconic to our trailer. The possible risk assesment is going to be the possibility of someone else using the park/swing. And we need to be alert to this for our own safety and theirs. Also we need to watch out for not disturbing anyone or injuring anyone around the area during filming. We are going to seek permission to use this location from the local council through a formal letter attached to an email.

2. A street near a house

This is a street near a house, although it is most likely that we are going to go outside the members’ house, if permission to film is needed, then we will mail or call the local council OR most likely include this in the letter as stated above. This location was selected because since we are going to film the inside scenes of the house first, filming the outside afterwards would still feel as if it’s a different house. This location is suitable due to the position of windows, the man (mirror) inside the car can clearly see the windows. A risk assessment would be to not break any objects around the area because of the fighting sequence just outside the house, as well as making sure we are alert to any traffic on the street.

Description of Technical Codes (Shot Types/Angles/Movement) Action that will take place:

1- The shot types we are going to use in this location: LS, MLS and a CU. The angles are mostly eye-leveled. There is going to be one tracking shot. For the ending, we are going to also film a LS of the swing.

2- The shot types we are going to use in this location: ECU of the husband’s eyes looking at his wife and some MS’s of the fighting sequence and perhaps an establishing shot of the house. And there is going to be a LS of the murderer sitting on the street sign.

3- The shot types we are going to use in this location: MCU for the argument, lots of close-ups for details such as the ransom note, and a LS for dad falling to the floor and the man receiving the money.

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3. Inside a member’s house

For our last main locations that we are going to use, we selected the inside of a member’s house because it is of a middle class. It is suitable for representing an everyday family arguing. Since there are scenes where the murder receives the money from the husband, husband breaking down in sadness, mum putting lipstick on etc, there are going to be lots of emotions included in the shots that are going to be shot. It is conventional for this to happen in households in soap operas, so this location will be iconic to identify the trailer as being a soap opera trailer. The main risk assessment here will be to take care of their Property, as damaging someone else’s property may lead to financial issues . Because we are filming at a member’s house, permission from their guardians may be needed.