Location Scouting:

At the weekend, I went up to London to look for locations where we could film scenes for our teaser trailer. In particular I was looking for places where our homeless teenager would be living and ideas for establishing shots/time lapse shots. Our teacher had recommended that we look round Waterloo Station so I went to look around there,

Homeless Locations:

 This is a shot underneath a bridge by Waterloo, I liked the bin in shot and thought it was quite typical of where a homeless person might sit. I also liked the lighting how the darkness of the tunnel contrasts with the bright light at the end.

This is Leake Street, which runs under Waterloo station, it's an authorised graffiti area and I could really imagine our impressionable homeless teenager sitting here watching the graffiti artists. Again from the angle that I took this shot, I like how the light on the floor gets darker the further in you go and gives it a sinister feeling.

The shot of these bins was just to show an ideal location for our homeless teenager to be seated, especially with the accidental mise-en-scene of the cardboard box which is where she could be sitting in.

This is a shot of the street, which is covered in graffiti, as we are planning to have other people/members of the public walk past this would be a good place for them to walk down and see the girl sitting at the end,

This is of an area beneath a bridge, on the bank of the River Thames, as you can see there is an actual homeless person already sitting up against the wall which is why it struck me as a good place because it seems realistic, however I don't think it would be as effective on camera.

Time Lapse Ideas:

 This shot was taken from the top of the stairs at Stratford after crossing the bridge from Westfield. I liked the idea of the people going up and down the stairs and also the buses moving in the upper right of the frame.

 I thought it might be busy by the river, so I took a high angle shot, looking down on the people but as you can't see that much of the Thames I don't think it would be as effective as I imagined.

This was a similar idea as I thought getting well-known attractions like the London Eye, Big Ben and Houses of Parliament would help give the audience a clearer shot of where the film is set, as well as the London Eye moving round would be a good effect.

 One of our original ideas was to have an establishing shot of trains, which could be used for a time lapse if there were enough lines. I tried to find a good place in Waterloo but I feel like the colours are too grey and you wouldn't be able to see enough of the trains.





The next two shots would be my chosen ideas for a time lapse - a train station. However as there are certain laws and issues of security with filming in a very public place, it might be very difficult to shoot the time lapse here. These were taken in Waterloo Station and I did particularly like the framing of this shot as all the people below will be moving and also the train boards will be flickering slightly. Also if the camera was a bit closer to the big clock then the hands of the clock would move round as well.

The location of the camera is also good as it is situated close to the edge of the balcony - this means we can get a high angle shot and there won't be people walking in front of the camera taking up most of the shot for large periods of time. I think, for a time lapse especially, the number of people in the shot is important and I feel filming in a public space will highlight the business of London which we are trying to put across.

Overall I think the trip to London was successful, I think it would be brilliant if we could film the shots of our homeless girl in Leake Street and maybe some shots of our killer along the road under the bridge by Waterloo Station. However for the time lapse I think it might be a bit impratical and risky to film the time lapse in the station itself so I think we should look into doing more shots along by the river.