Marie's House - Scenes 2, 3, 12 & 13
All three of us went to the location that Laura had found previously, and this location will be where we shoot all of the scenes outside & in Marie's house. Due to Marie's high paid job and wealthy lifestyle she needed to live in a fairly big, expensive looking house.
I knew this house looked pretty expensive and wealthy looking just by looking at a picture of it, but upon our arrival the house definitely had a sense of wealth to it. I knew straight away that this house would be perfect for Marie's house and theres a definite difference from Annie & Dean's house, which is what we wanted.
We went inside to take a look at the living room, which is where scene 13 will be shot. The living room is large and has a very modern colour scheme, making the house look more upper class. We decided we want three different shots in this location - a WS, a MCU of Marie sitting down and a MS of the TV. We're going to take advantage of the space in the living room, and make sure we get a good balance of different shot sizes, and make sure all the equipment is out of shot. For the TV shot, we will put a green screen on the screen, and in post we will add the security camera footage onto the screen.
After deciding on how we were going to film scene 13, we made our way back outside to decide how scene 12, and the security camera shot would be filmed, and where our cameras would be placed. Originally, we had decided to do this scene behind the gates, but we realised that the house is quite a distance from the gates and it wouldn't work as well as I imagined. Instead, we have decided to film in front of the front door, which has got a security camera in the centre of it. We're going to shoot a 2-S of Annie & Dean, and then a CU of Dean so we get as much coverage as possible. For the security camera, we're going to shoot on the doorway and make sure the camera is on the same level as the security camera on the door.
I think this set up will work better than our original plan as it'll be easier for us to film in terms of space, but also it'll make more sense in terms of story.
We then went down to the gate and started discussing how we were going to shoot scenes 2 & 3. There has been a lot of deliberation as to where the car will be parked, as that is where that scene is set. I originally thought the car would be parked on the driveway area in front of the gate. However, Laura & Nisserin thought it would be parked on the side of the road. We weren't sure as to whether the car would fit on the driveway area in front of the gate so we planned for the car to parked on the side of the road.
When we arrived at the location, we all agreed it would be quite dangerous if we were to park the car on the side of the road as the road isn't very wide. So we moved Nisserin's car to the driveway in front of the gate to see if it would fit, and it did. We then made the final decision that the car would be parked there, and we would shoot in one side of the car with the window down.
Then for scene 3, we would stay on the same side as that shot so we don't cross the line, and we'll get a shot reverse shot of Annie & Dean and Marie, and then a shot of Annie from in front of the gate when they turn around.
Overall, I'm really glad we went to this location and looked around as it gave us a chance to see the space we were working with. It also gave me and Nisserin some time to discuss how we were going to shoot these scenes to the best of our ability, and test it out in terms of standing in positions and taking images.
Conference Room - Scene 1
Another scene we needed to do a location recce of was scene 1, which is set in a conference room. During pre-production, there were multiple discussions as to where we would shoot this scene, and originally we had planned to shoot in a room at the Rochester UCA campus. However, this didn't really work out for some unknown reason, but we all agreed it would be easier if we were to shoot in the studio. The producer spoke to Simon about this, and it was something that we could do, so that was our final decision. We planned a day to go down into the studios, during one of the 2nd years workshops for their studio production unit, and look around the space to decide how we would want to shoot. We also had the opportunity to test how we would light the scene by lighting the 2nd years set up.
Fergus previously spoke to Nisserin about experimenting with colour gels and making the background look colourful. I really liked this idea as it gave a sense of wealth, so we tried it with the tungsten lights and the colour gels. We experimented with many different colours, but the two colours we liked the most were orange and red. We angled the lights towards the black curtains and made the ruffles quite large and consistent to make the orange light stand out against the black background. We all really liked this effect, so we are going to recreate this for our own set, as I think it makes the company look like they spent a lot of money on this event because they could.
By doing this test shoot and location recce it helped us visualise the scene, which in turns helps us when deciding what shots we want to use and where the cameras & lights will be placed. This scene is probably one of, if not the most, complicated scene we have to shoot and it needs to turn out really good as it's the first scene we see in the episode. A lot of preparation will go into this scene to make sure it turns out successful, we just need to find a good amount of crew and extras to appear in the scene.
Overall, both of these location recce's were really successful and effective when visualising what the shots and scenes will look like. We know have a good idea as to what each location looks like, which in turn makes blocking and shot list planning a lot easier and less complicated.
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