Location Reccie

Chadwell Heath Academy - outside school

    This is a picture of the school, in which our different scenes are taking place. We chose this as we have easy access to it and it fits in with our storyline as the two characters are teenage girls who are still in education. Some of the audience will be able to relate through the uses and gratifications of Personal Identity as most of them will still be in some form of education. 

          Chadwell Heath Academy - lower school playground

This is a shot of the bins, in the lower school playground, we chose this location for the fight at the start of the opening sequence with Chelsea and Jordan, as it looks rough and is a typical location where fights would occur-out of sight from authority figures such as teachers. It is also useful as there are usually other students around here which would look good in the background to add to the realism.

This is a shot of an isolated bench, not far from the bins above. This is where Chelsea will send the text that starts the rumour about Jordan. We chose this location as it's close to the bins and it makes sense for Chelsea to go there. Also there's not many students around there at the time we will be filming, so it won't be too disruptive. 

This is opposite the isolated bench and is a possible location we could use to show Chelsea walking away from the encounter with Jordan, we chose this as the gates represent the urban aspect of the genre BSR and all scarcity of the bikes and broken lockers represents the school as a public school-also representing the social class of the students and the theme poverty. The blue gate also adds dimension to the shot and make it cinematic.

Crucible Park

We chose this park as it has school children in it after school which is when we want to film, this is useful to us as it makes it look more realistic, the park also looks very urban and in an \area which is not of a high class. The skate park has a grunge look, a place for gangs to hang out.

This is a railing in the park which we liked as it represents the urban area very well and doesn't look well cared for-representing the BSR genre of edgy.

Establishing shot of the Park

Goodmayes Park

This is a shot of the park from outside where we will  be filming, we chose this park as it is large and also includes a public toilet facility in which our storyline will continue and the main event of the opening sequence will happen. This park is also local to us and therefore we can get there before it get's dark, so our filming will all be done with the same lighting-important for continuity. 

Public Bathroom

We will be filming in this building here, which is situated in the above park, this is a public bathroom and the interior is slightly rough so we feel it will be suitable for BSR, this will also be a very good filming location for us as it goes along with our storyline as this could be a stop-off for our main character Chelsea.

High Road

This bus stop is along the high road, around the area that Chelsea will live in. We decided to have this bus stop as we thought with having the flats in the background it adds to the urban element of the film and shows the location. 

These are the flats that we will have Chelsea walk into, connoting that she lives here. We chose these flats as they all look the same, connoting how her life is quite mundane. Also it looks quite urban and not very fancy, which is the area where Chelsea would live in.