On 26th January, Saad and I conducted a location research once again, this time with better visualisation of the shots that we wanted in our short film, "Ragged 2wice".
This is the main gate of Beaconhouse School System. Jubilee Campus. I will be showing the main character, Kamran, first arrive in his mom's car, get out of it and then enter the school. In our film, the school is actually referred to a "College" because it is a more general form, rather than mentioning "A" Levels or "O" Levels. This will be the location for the 1st Scene.
This is another shot of the same gate, but this is a better angle and has more space in the frame, especially for the car to enter the frame. This is an ideal shot for our film. I will be taking shots of the car arriving in front of the gate.
This is how the street in front of the school gate looks like from the opposite angle. I will probably use this angle while showing the main character walk towards the school gates as his mom's car drives away.
This is the gate that the main character will enter through. I prefer to use the small gate because the large gate is used only when it is home time. In the morning, the school uses the small gate only, due to security reasons, and I believe it is not an issue that should be challenged.
This is the inside of the same small gate shown in the picture above. I have kept this as an option to show Kamran enter the school, confirming that he has entered the school/college premises. This is a side angle shot of the gate. The 2nd Scene of the film will start from this location.
This is another angle of the same small gate. I believe this is a better angle than the one mentioned above, because this has more space to show Kamran, the main character, enter the school/college premises and then it will allow me to pan the camera towards the left when Kamran walks into the A Level section, where the rest of the film will be shot.
This is the entrance of the A Level section of the school, and we will be showing the College atmosphere, with Kamran entering the area and finding other students like him checking their Timetable and then going of to their respective classes. This is also the place where Kamran will meet the first and main antagonists of the film, the Bullies.
This is the opposite side of the A Level entrance. This angle will also be used in the film.
The notice board can be seen on the right hand side in the picture. Here, the timetable of the A Level section is already present. From here, the film will pick the pace when Kamran will meet the bullies. This image was taken when there were no students in this area. During the shoot, there will be students roaming around and checking the timetable. Kamran will meet the bullies near the stairs on the right.
This is the back alley of the school. The bullies will bring Kamran to this place. They will rag him here and then make him dance. This is the entrance of the back alley. The 3rd scene will be shot entirely in this location.
This is a different angled shot of the back alley. There will also be a bench here, to show that people come here, and also for the bullies to put Kamran and then put paint and a tutu on him.
The scene of Kamran being ragged is the biggest scene of the film, and so we will require a lot of shots and Match On Action for this scene. This is why I have taken pictures from different angles of the back alley.
This is the most ideal placement for the bench to be kept, because the bench is long and the back alley is narrow. Kamran will do the dance in this same area, with shots of similar angles.
In one of my previous posts, I had used pictures of the hallway that is on the ground floor, but after some observation, I figured that the corridor of the second floor is clear of people when the students are in their classes. Almost all the class rooms on the second floor belong to the A Level section.
This is the other side of the corridor. I have kept this location as an option as it may not be used, but while writing the story I imagined Kamran walking through the corridor and finding his class room.
This is the outside of the class room that I have chosen for the 4th Scene. This location proved to be more ideal for me as I wanted less extras in the hallway, which would help to depict that most of the students are in their classes, studying.
This is the same door shown in the picture above, but it has been taken from a different angle.
One thing that influenced me to chose this floor is that one of the class rooms is very neat and clean, and ideal for the 4th Scene. It also has a considerable amount of space to fit around 20-30 students. I want to show a good amount of the students so that I can have the teacher look at all the students and speak in different directions, so that the person sitting behind Kamran would put the cigarette pack in his shirt.
This is the back side of the same class room. The seats will be arranged in a different manner.
While taking pictures, I was inspired to take snaps from different angles of the room, to give a good overview of the class room, and show the space it has.
This is a picture was taken from the side opposite to the one shown above. The walls of this class room are also very clean and there are a good amount of chairs present here.
This is the office of the Principal, Mrs. Humera Javed. She will also be acting for us as the Principal. The office was chosen because of its lighting and size.
The office is also full of files, photographs, trophies and everything that a Principal might have.
This is a shot of the room from a different angle. This will be the place where Kamran will stand and talk to the principal in the scene. The fifth scene will be shot in this location.
Scene six and seven will be shot in the locations of scene one and two. Therefore those locations will be repeated. Apart from that, these are our final locations.
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