Planning: Location Planning

Taking shots of locations where we're going to take action helped us visualize our story board. It gave us a brief understanding of how our video will look like in the end.

During the progress we got to decide the best places for our shooting, so location planning also allowed us to adjust for best lighting and what settings are possible. Having that sorted out before flming saves us time because if there was a room being in use while we had to shoot, we'd have to move to a diferent location, as well as altering the storyboard.

 We decided to have the establishing shot paneling to show a better view of the scenery, and giving the viewer a better understanding of the location.

We'll include the stairs to track down the character and show where he/she's heading to. It will also give the viewer more information on the setting. 

We'll be making sure the railing in the middle will be straight to make the scene more symmetrical.

Here is the area of 6th form, where most of the action will be taking place. We chose this area because the least lessons take place in here compared to any other classrooms, which will allow us to focus more on our filming rather than keeping quiet and making sure we don't disturb any lessons. We'll be able to communicate at a normal tone that will allow our work to be organised and hopefully successful. 

The 6th form area has several study rooms, which is great because if we need to use the study room, we can ask for the people in there to move to a different area if they're busy studying so they don't get in the way of our scene or we don't cause them to loose their focus. The setting is also business-like, which is exactly what we're looking for, except the seating. We'll have to borrow somethings from other rooms to get the setting perfect. The lighting is also good because we have the windows that let in light from the outside as well as the lights on the ceiling. If it's too bright then we can turn off the lights to use natural light, or pull the blinds down for ambient light.