Locations(Planning)

The majority of the Film Trailer is going to

be shot at the school of the Sixth form that

I currently go to. This is because most of

the story line is set at a school. Here are

some photographs I took of parts of my

school, that I thought some of the filming

could take place in.

These particular shots are of the

courtyard in my school. At lunch and

break this area is swarming with students

from the school. So my partner and I had

the idea of shooting the scene in which

that band are fully established in. The

band will walk down through this

courtyard, so the audience will get a

good idea of what the band is like.

This is another photograph of

the courtyard, getting the whole

image of what it looks like and

why it fits the purpose of the

filming here.

Here is a photograph of the

stage at my school, in which

Alex hungers to play on one

day. We plan to film him looking

up at the stage, to show the

journey that he will have to

make to end up there.

Classroom/Study Room

scene

For this scene we needed somewhere

with a lot of natural light, so that we

could get a clear picture of the

‘climax’ scene in the film. This scene

encounters an argument between our

protagonist Alex and one of his best

friends Sarah.

We also needed it to be a study room,

to emphasise the fact that school is at

the centre of the main characters life

and the film’s nature. This is a room in

Owen and I’s sixth form building, that

has a lot of natural light and is rarely

used. It was ideal also because it

showed the genuine reality of our story

line, potentially being a real story,

despite the fact that it’s not.

Music Room

The music room scene is an important part in the

film trailer, as it shows the band, practising and

the issue that arose in this scene, to the audience.

The music room had to be a practise room in a

school as well, because the film story is focused

in a school.

Therefore, we planned this scene and booked

out a practise room in our school that was

spacious enough to fit the band in comfortably.

This music room fits the film perfectly as it is in

our sixth forms main school and it is spacious

enough to fit the actors of the band in. It was

important to find people who knew how to play

a musical instrument. Therefore we did this and

they decided to jam in the music room we

booked out. This proved successful as we just

asked them to jam and an issue to occur and we

just filmed this.

We also want to film a scene in the common

room in our sixth form building, where the

protagonists friendship group was secluded

from the rest of the sixth form. This is to

show the pressures and struggles of

wanting and trying to fit in at

school/college/sixth form college.

This table in our sixth from common room is

barely ever occupied and is secluded from

the rest of the tables in the room. Therefore

it was the perfect place to shoot this scene

that we had in mind.

We wanted to show how unhappy Alex was

in this friendship group, and how he wanted

to be in the same social group in the band.

So we planned to get a mid shot of the

three people in his friendship group,

secluded and in their own little world.

For one of the scenes, we

want it to be outside a

music shop, because it fits

in to one of the main

themes for the film. This

photograph that I took, is

from the window of a local

music shop, in an

industrialised area,

focusing in on the social

realism genres codes and

conventions, for the

environment of the

established film. It is crucial

for this scene to have a

musical element because

it’s a key bonding moment

for the protagonist and his

love interest. This scene

reveals that they have

some common ground.