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St. Paul’s Catholic College

Unit G324: Advanced Portfolio in Media

Locations

1.) Cedars Park, Sunbury

Cedars Park has a large, open plan space, and typically connotes a sense of happiness and freedom for anybody who uses it, giving users ‘diversion’ (Katz) from their daily lives and enjoying themselves. This will be used, however, as a ‘binary opposite’ (Levi Strauss) in our trailer, as the female protagonist Lily will be followed by male antagonist Ace, before being seemingly murdered. Additionally, the bright colours will not be present, as the setting will be filmed at during the night, connoting a dystopian setting, which could be perceived as scary or mysterious.

The actual shot of the swings for our trailer qwill be taken from the side to be of our point of call. As a group we decided that swings ‘Signfy ing’ (De Saussure) a dystopian effect on the audience because of the way it creaks. This will be our establishing shot and will be taken from a close up to capture the chain of the swings. The swings also connote that the trailer is for youths (Hartley’s seven subjjectives) targeted at ages between 13- 18 year olds.

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2.) The Admiral Hawke, Sunbury

The Grey Horse pub acts as a familiar setting that the audience can ‘personally identify’ (Katz) with, ‘repeating’ (Steve Neale) the codes and conventions of other soap operas such as EastEnders and Coronation Street. It is the place in which the characters celebrate significant events, such as weddings and the birth of a child. The setting itself connotes a warm, friendly atmosphere and is used in a happier scene of the trailer. The connotations of the name ‘Hawke’ gives the audience a sense of the ‘all seeing’ which links in well with our trailer, giving it a more mysterious

vibe.

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3.) Chapel, Sunbury, St. Pauls Catholic College

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We decided to use the Chapel in school as our prime location for the wedding. Our original aspirations were to use the church in St. Ignatius because it was more authentic than the school chapel. However, we did have a change of heart after a few complications with using the church so we decided to use our local school chapel in St. Paul’s. We wanted to use a church setting because it connotes a happy and utopian mood for a wedding day. From putting research into soap opera’s we found out that a wedding is the perfect strategy in creating that happy atmosphere for it to be destroyed later on by the antagonist.

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We will use the chairs in the chapel for our audience to watch the marriage. Since the location is a chapel we thought that this was the perfect location for the marriage to take place. In this scene, we will most likely collect staff as well students from the sixth form to help fill up spaces and make the wedding look naturalistic as possible.

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4.) Bedroom

We used the house of another group member and most specifically the bedroom of that house. We did this because we wanted to portray our character Lilly as actually waking up from a dream to make our trailer look more realistic; more specifically we wanted to do this because it was easier for all groups to film at one persons house if needed. The bed was the most key imagery out of all the other shots so we put all our

energy into making this footage perfectly presented.

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