Location scouting

Location Scouting

These are photos from when we went location scouting for filming our interview. The people we were interviewing used to attend the college so we thought a suitable miss en scene for the interview would be part of the college. The first we considered was the media suite which used to be the old college hall. After looking at the location with a lot of detail we realised that it would not be a suitable place to film. this was because the main part we wanted to incorporate was a big stone memorial but we realised to get it in the shot we would have to film from a really low angle as it is quite high up. After this we looked at the music studios for the purpose of them being quite. We then realised that they would be too small to fit all of the equipment in. the next location we considered was the photography studio next to the art room. We thought this would be the definite location we would film in as it already had the lights there and the white backdrop with plenty of room but we soon encountered a problem. The problem was that being right next to the art room meant that we could hear a lot of noise as someone was sawing pieces of wood really loud. This was a big problem because if we could hear the noise the sensitive mic we were using would definitely pick it up and it would drown out the people talking. After another fail in location scouting we had to think of a really quite place with plenty of room, so we decided the library. We asked and got permission to film in there so we started to take the equipment down. Once we had set up the white backdrop we went to get the second lot of equipment and when we returned the backdrop had unravelled and collapsed. We didn't have enough time to set it up again so we really quickly had to find another location. In the end we decided to take advantage of the nice weather that day and filmed outside. the location we chose was outside the old college hall and once we had set the camera up and framed the shot it looked really good. The end product of the interviews turned out really well shot and the sound was also good. One of the people we interviewed brought some old photos with him and there was one of him and the college cricket team sat outside the old hall where we filmed the interview so that added to the meaning behind the shot.

Health and Safety

There was a few health and safety risks we had to consider whilst filming. when we were going to film in the locations where we use the lights we would have to consider the wires and cables being on the floor so we would have had to tape them down so that they were secure and know one could trip over them. we would also have to consider the risk of the paper on the lights getting to hot as it could start a fire. In the locations where we would have been using the big backdrop we would have had to make sure the stands supporting it were secure and that there were clips holding the screen to make sure it couldn't unravel and hurt someone. When filming out side we didn't have all the wires from the lights so the only thing we had to consider was that tripods were not obstructing any pathways people would walk down.