Location Shots

Here is a list of some different locations that we are going to be using for our film opening. We have decided to use four different locations to make the opening more interesting and exciting.


Image of the door that Lucy will be walking through into the interview room.


This is the end of the corridor leading up to the door that we will see Lucy walking down.


This is another angle of the corridor showing a longer view that we will do a shot of Lucy's feet from.

The first location that will be introduced is the corridor. At the moment the corridor is quite bright with a red door and colourful posters. The posters will be easy for us to take down but the door would still be an issue. To overcome this problem we are going to change the colour of the door altering the contrast and saturation during the editing process. We decided that this would be a good location to use because it is a long enough corridor to walk down to record our footage, but not too long that it would take to long to walk down and take up too much recording time. The corridor slightly bends round a corner, which makes it a good thing because it allows us to change the direction of filming where the corner turns. As we are going to be filming in the corridor with limited light, we are hoping that the colours of the walls will not be as intense and so we will not have to make as many adjustments. If this does happen and the colours are still as bright, we will cover the walls with dark paper, making the corridor look as dark and sinister as we can. Another way that we are going to try and overcome the issue of the colours is to try and keep as many of the shots as we can close ups. This will stick to the theme of how other scenes in our chosen genre are shot.


This is a shot from behind the glass, it shows the reflection of the person taking the image. This will have to be carefully positioned to not get the reflection of the camera during filming.


This is the recording studio that we are going to be using as the interview room.


This is the other side of the recording studio behind the window that we are going to use as one way glass.

As the interrogator walks through the door, we are introduced to our second location, the music recording room in our college. We have chosen this room because it appears to be a large and empty room, which is perfect for what we want the location to look like. The equipment in the room will be removed from the area we are going use where we will set up 2 tables and 3 chairs for our interrogation scene. The window in the room will be used as a one-way mirror, a popular prop used in interrogation scenes.

All the lights in the interrogation room and the room on the other side of the glass will be switched off. The only source that we are going to use will be a table lamp in the interrogation room. The door that leads to the recording room from the corridor has a window that allows light in. To prevent light from coming into the room, all the curtains around the music recording room will be drawn to cover the walls, and the door.

To create the CCTV camera shot, the camera will be placed on a table whilst on the tripod, which we found is at the same level as our college security cameras so this should look quite effective. During editing a hazy, distorted filter will be used over the footage. A date and time will be added at the bottom of the screen to make it more realistic.

The third location that we will be using in college will be from the other side of the glass in the editing suite of the recording studio. We want this to appear as though it is one-way glass so we can do a point of view shot showing the interrogation scene. When taking our location shots, we have found that it is going to be difficult to film this without getting a reflection. After discussing the problem, we decided to film
from different angles keeping the camera out of sight to avoid getting a reflection.

We realise that we are not going to be able to keep the shadow of the person out of the shot, but to make it less noticeable, we are going to zoom in on the window so that less of the surrounding area can be seen and giving it a greater appearance of an interrogation scene.
We have looked at a few existing interrogation scenes and we have found that in most of them there is a slight reflection on the glass therefore we are not taking this as a major issue.