Location Research 1

My filming for my main character is taking part in Norwich City Centre;

                                                                                My first location I started at was Norwich Bus station. This is where the first initial part of the filming will be taking place and the shot will be seen right at the start of my two minute sequence. 

The first shot, ideally, I originally wanted to see the girl step off the bus, however I figured this may not be possible as bus drivers have to keep to a scedule. Having abandoned that idea, I thought about having a bus present in the background of the shot when the girl is walking in the bus station, to allow the audience to get the impression she has just got off a bus, without actually filming the event.

As you can see in the shot above, passengers who have just got off a bus are walking across a zebra crossing. This in turn, gave me the idea that I could have my main character walking across this same zebra crossing, whilst having the bus in the background behind her. 

This picture is of the zebra crossing once again, however from a different angle. This is so I could get an idea of which point of view I wanted to film from.


















This picture I purely included because I may use it as a cutaway shot in my piece. As you can see, it indicates the bus departure times.

Similarly to the picture above, this picture is of three chairs of which passengers can sit on whilst waiting for their specific bus, or either, after a journey. This too maybe used as a cutaway shot for my coursework.

Moving on from the bus station, no more that two
minutes away, there is some steps leading down to the Subway in Norwich. I wanted to get my main actress going down the steps to continue the idea that she is on a journey and to get the audience asking questions such as 'Where is she going?' 'What is she going to be doing?' Furthermore, I also wanted to because I think it would be confusing if the film just cut from her being at the bus station to a location completely different. In this picture I particularly like the fact I have caught a bus in the background. Ideally I would love to have a bus in the background for when I shooting the short film as I feel it would be affective having seen her just come
from a bus station. It give the illusion that the film
is carrying on.

Here is a better, clearer view of the steps down to the sub way of which I am hoping to capture my actress walking down.

This is another shot of the steps yet taken at a different angle. I would like to get a view of my actress coming down the steps from behind and then from in front as well, in order to break up shots and make my piece more versitile.







                                                                            
                                                                                              
In this shot of the steps you can see the billboard at the bottom, this is something I want to include in my film opening and would like the audience to see, yet have my character walk past the billboard without aknowledgement. I may take this shot with the billboard present as the actress is walking down, so the audience are able to see it.

Here is a closer up shot of the billboard situated at the bottom of the steps. This is where I am going to have my poster pinned up advertising dance auditions. My character is going to walk straight past it not noticing that is it there, meanwhile the audience will notice it is by a zoomed in shot of the advertisement poster.

This is the shot that you see within the Subway. Haven taken this picture, I can now see that it is very dark. This is something I need to think about when filming underground as it would be a great shame for my filming to come out this dark. Darkness gives the impression of a bland and in some ways scary storyline and this is not what I want to portray for my film. Some of the mamorials are very cleverly drawn and colourful too which is not seen in this picture. Having said this, I really want to use this shot of the subway for my media coursework.

This is the shame shot as above but retaken because of the darkness that is seen in the last photo. I prefer this picture a lot more, because it gives the lighter/happier feel that I would like my piece to contain, plus the graffiti on the walls stands out and in my opinion, adds to the street dance affect. As you can see, there are predestrians present in this photo, whereas in the previous one there isn't any. This is something I need to think about before shooting. I am not yet sure whether to include other people whilst my character is walking through the Subway, or if it will be more affective if it were just her. My decision on whether to use extra people or not, may just come down to the fact of other individuals availability. Would I be able to get extra people to come on the day of filming or would ordinary people mind taking part?
                                                                              
The following photos are pictures of the various
different billboards. I am going to have my actress
dancing in front of one of the billboards, and I feel
it is important for the billboard to be good and reflect something about the storyline of the film.
a) For example this one of a train could represent that fact she is on a journey, giving the impression she will eventually make it as a international professional dancer.

b) Although difficult to make out what exactly this is suggesting, it caught by eye because of the various colours that it contains.

c) this one is one of my favourites! It perfectly demonstrates the dancing theme.

d) This one, I like because the girl is looking out as though she has hopes and aspirations yet they are not being for-filled at present, which goes with the idea in my film.

e) Although of no particular relevance to the theme,I 

    really like how colourful this one is and feel my

    actress dancing in front of a black mamorial

    combined with the strong colours used of the top

    would be affective.

f) Lastly, looking at which piece of artwork to have my character standing in front of may seem very picky, so I would just like to demonstrate why it has some importance. For instance, it would not really be appropriate (however good it is to support Norwich City) to have her dance in front of the logo for the local football team.

This picture indicates how the Subways splits into four different directions. I may have my actress being shown to walk down one of these routes.

Lastly, to show she is now leaving the Subway and walking to another location I will show her exiting, via going up this ramp. 

Finally, the last location I would like my main character to be seen dancing at is down an alley way doing tap dancing. This is because I think hearing her tap would be really affective and I want the audience to be able to see her doing as many different types of dance to demonstrate how good she is. 

I was really happy to have found this alley way, however it was off a fairly busy street so may have been difficult to film because of the fact predestrians would have wanted to use it. It is also rather narrow. 

I was not 100% satisfied with the first alley way I found, therefore looked to see if there was a better one I could use for filming. Luckily, I was able to find one down a lane called ''School Lane.''

I was far happier with this one because as you can
see it is far wider than the first alley way I found.

This alley way is also not off a busy street like the previous one so it is very unlikely anyone would want to go use it whilst filming was taking place.

Lastly, another point which is demonstrate well in this picture is the the red brick used. I thought this would go particularly well amongst the sound of the tap shoes. Combined I think it would be quite effective