Locations Research

Our idea for a location was a teenage boys bedroom with hints of what he was planning on doing without giving away too much about him so that there was still a good sense of enigma about our film opening.

Our location 

One of the members of our group has an older brother so his bedroom was the perfect place to shoot. We shot our film opening at about mid-day but we wanted it to look like the evening so we shut the blind in the room to make it darker. 

The room wasn't exactly how we wanted it so we made some changes, we added a desk with a laptop and and all the other props we needed for the close ups. We dressed the room to fit peters personality, with posters on the wall and a laptop on the desk where he wrote his letter.
We wanted our location to conform to the stereotypes of teenagers so we created a typical bedroom for a teenage boy. Teenagers are thought to be depressed and obsessed with technology and social media, this fits well with out film opening as the boy is using a laptop and wearing black which represents depression.

Issued faced with the location:

Because we were filming during the day and our film was set at night we had to make sure we got the lighting perfect. The blind in the room was a bit broken so we couldn't completely block out the light, this wasn't a problem to start with. Filming took us a while day and the light was changing during the day which meant that the shot would have different lighting in them which isn't what we wanted as the whole thing was set at night. To overcome this problem we used some blue tack to stick the blind to the wall so it would block out all the light from outside.