Location Planning

Today, Myself and Pav took our time to walk to the local theatre and take some location planning pictures, below is what we came up with.


The Lighthouse Theatre (Audience Stage View) - This is the shot we are planning to use early on in our Teen Horror Movie Opening. We want to use the Samsung HD Camcorder's time-lapse feature to show the audience building in the theatre, we will sit the camcorder at the back of the theatre and we hope to have a similar view to the one shown below.

The Lighthouse Theatre (On-Stage View) - This is the type of location ideal for the shot we need in our teen horror, this will be the over the shoulder which will change into a 360 rotation of the main character.

The Lighthouse Theatre (View Across Stage) - This shot will be used a short jump shot and we will film from around about the same spot as the picture below has been taken, this will have the expose facing the audience and will be a short piece of footage to add a variety of different effects through the usage of different shots.

The Lighthouse Theatre (Backstage Changing Room) - This is a location in which we plan to use for many shots in our short opening, it will be where we get the early shots of the main character who plans to expose the Illuminati, it will show him prepping himself and the build up to him going out on stage.

The Lighthouse Theatre (Backstage Corridor's) -  This is the location we plan on getting a key shot to the production of this opening, it will consist of a tracking back shot of the main character, this will have a voice-over of an defying speech. To view an example of this tracking shot,view the video embedded at the bottom of this post.

Aswell as the above pictures Myself and Pav decided to take some basic recording's or The Lighthouse Theatre, I have since edited all the footage and below is what we came up with:

Untitled from Jack White on Vimeo.

We feel that the location planning process has helped us get an even greater feel as to what our finished product will look like as we can now visual the surroundings that we will have included in our final product. This also helps as we now have a greater idea of how to plan our shot list etc because we have a good idea of  what is what and where thing's our at our prime location. Now we have completed this we must now move onto the Casting process, we will hold group talk's tomorrow as to where to go from here with casting.