Location Scouting

We decided to go on recce to help find a suitable place to film. We visited many potential sites for filming our 'Underpass' scene. All had what we were looking for in terms of the gritty and urban aesthetic. But we eventually found a suitable place to film. We decided to take the pictures in the daytime, even though our opening will take place at night, this was done to give us a better idea off what the place looks like.

Here are the pictures of the unused locations:

This is the first underpass location we went too.
We liked this because it allows us to be able to film a long shot going all the way down to the entrance of the actual underpass. However we felt this was not ideal because we are unable to see what is happening in the underpass from this angle.

We used these pictures to help us decide the scope and size of the shot and we used Andy in the picture to help us decide whether to use this location, although suitable the deciding factor behind us not using this location was the fact that we could not see into the underpass.









These pictures are from the actual underpass tunnel, they had exactly what were looking for but the downfall of it was the path leading to it not being in the right place.

These are the pictures of the Underpass we are going to use.

The reason for using this location over the previous one is simple. In the film opening there is going to be a tracking shot of Samson walking down through an underpass where a man is being beaten up, and here as you can see the action will be able to be seen as we follow Samson.

This location also allows us to utilize on the environment. We will be able to have shots of the traffic as they pass as this will juxtapose the situation, the situation being that while people go about there day to day life dangerous and terrible things are happening. We are trying to send a message or be preachy with this, we are simply trying to make the viewer realise that anything can happen at anytime.

The following are the pictures off the Underpass that will serve as our setting:

(Closer look at the underpass which we will use)

(This is in the underpass, as you can see the
Setting has the desired aesthetic)

(This is a shot of whats on the other side of the
underpass, this is a good shot as it is composed
framed and has ambiguity)

(This shot will be used as our introduction to
Samson before the tracking shot, its good
because it frames Samson and helps the viewer
identify Samson as a central character)

We will adding more pictures of our locations as the project goes on. We will also post pictures of the locations at night time, to help us see what it will look like at night.