Locations

For our opening we will only be shooting in two different locations, which will be Sam's bedroom and Daniel's road. We are using Sam's room because it is much more suitable in terms of mise en scene, but also Daniel's road as it has a rougher appearance. This means that we have to be careful not to reveal the two different streets in our film opening. This could be helped by closing all of the windows in Sam's bedroom if his own street can be seen and not showing any continuous shots of the teenager leaving his home.

We wanted to start with exterior shots of a street so that it establishes where the opening is going to be set and it also gives information about the character's background, personality and even race. We wanted to end the establishing shots with a shot of the house which will be Daniel's. We then cut to the interior of Sam's bedroom. When we see repeated cutaways of the father coming towards the house, it will give the illusion that both shots are filmed right near each other when in reality they are much further apart.

We have chosen these particular places because we wanted to choose somewhere we thought would be "average" enough for audiences to relate to. This is why we chose a normal road. It is undecided if we are going to show a school in an opening to show that the teenager is a student. It will depend on the running time we got left, and also if we decide if it seems too obvious or not.