Locations

In our short film we will be using many locations in London; some of these locations are very iconic like the London eye, Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly Circus. We want to film in these places so that we can show how people who aren’t from England admire the landmarks and history of the city, we also want to contrast it with the more realistic and urban side of London which migrants don’t expect.

Filming in these landmarks in London can be very tricky because there is always allot of people around, this will make it difficult to get a realistic shot as people will be walking in front of the camera, or looking straight into the lens. We will try and get around this by keeping these shots to a minimum and making them simple, so we will just show the landmark, we won’t try and shoot a full scene there. These short simple shots will work as we will be using it as a montage.

In contrast to these iconic landmarks, we will show a gritty urban estate; this will show the more real, gritty part of London. This estate will be perfect as it is easy to get to and the connotations of the iconography is very good, tower blocks are often seen as crime infested and where the lower classes live. 

Below is a picture of the bench, which the main character goes to after his Job interviews, this is also where he meets the girl that he falls in love with. This is a convenient location as it is close for all the cast and crew involved to get to. There also wont be too many people around, unlike in central london, so it will make it easier to film. The disadvantage is that we will not have any control over lighting and we will have to mute all the background sound of people and the wind.

Bellow are some of the shops that are going to be in the scenes where he goes to get a job, we chose these locations as they are close to go to, they are also realistic jobs that an immigrant would be able to get, because stereotypically immigrants wont have the qualifications or skills to get any better jobs. We did have some problems filming outside the shops, the first was that people started waving at the camera from inside the shop, which would have ruined the realism of the shot. We were also told that we were not allowed to film outside DFS by one of the employees because of image rights.