Planning - Filming Locations

Overview:

As we prepare for filming after creating a storyboard and script, it is now crucial that we choose locations to film our opening to save time, and those locations need to fit the vision we created through the descriptions in the script and the drawings from the storyboard to make a high quality product that has a good flow that makes sense between scenes to not cause confusion to viewers.

Discussion:

As a team, we discussed who's house we will be filming at. At first, I did not offer because I thought my teammate's houses would be better fits for filming locations, although after comparing houses for filming neither of my teammates had houses that were well suited for the types of shots we plan on filming. This discussion took longer than expected as we compared the shots from the storyboard to determine if they will be possible at each of our houses to find the best fit. In the end, my house was the best suited, especially because of the straight line from my front door to my kitchen which will make filming a panicked tracking scene less tedious. 

For the therapist scene we had to think about a place that resembled an office of sorts as we could not film in an actual therapist office, after thinking of locations we decided a library would be the best filming location due to its ease of access, quiet environment, and monotone color scheme.

Chosen Locations:

Bedroom:

Bathroom:

Kitchen:

Library:

Parking Lot:

Reflection:

This process tested our critical thinking to think of locations that are accessible to us to make sure we can film without issue, this process took us the length of a class period due to the research aspect and finding locations, like the library and making sure they are not too far from us. From here we will create a final planning blog outlining how we will begin filming and how we will schedule and organize filming to finalize planning and begin the production phase.