Location- Coursework prep

Description of the Homes
For each of the characters as their homes are very contrasting, its important we emphasise this;
Boy's House: Living in the countryside, in a large house, (he would have to drive to school), he is surrounded by land showing his wealth. the interior of the house is open-planned kitchen-diner, and the rest of the house has plenty of room with stuffed animals and wealthy looking objects. With in the first few seconds of the opening we can clearly see the differences in houses, the boys family like with luxuries and the girl has very limited things. The kitchen will be very tidy and neat since the family have the money to pay for a cleaner while they are at work earning money.
Girls House: The girls house is going to be very different, its a lot smaller than the boys with broken bottles and rubbish everywhere, we will mainly use the kitchen in both openings as that is where you can contrast the homes the best and its where the family get ready in the morning for school. we would pan across the room and table showing the rubbish and dirt everywhere. Last nights washing would still be in the sink and the bin would be overflowing, but since the mother is an alcoholic she doesn't care about what her house looks like, just where the next drink comes from. the kitchen is old and tattered because the money the girls family do get is spent on alcohol.

Ideal and Chosen locations

Oscar's House
For the boys home we will be using my house- as it is in the country a modern/cottage feel to it, which is ideal for Oscars home, it has at very large room at the front which is the kitchen-dining room, there is space for filming and good lighting. My house has 4 doors to exit the house so we have options on where to film from and too. The house has a country wealthy feel to it so it will fit in well with the theme.

This is the exterior of the house, and it is on a private farming estate , with dogs in the kennels and horses in fields surrounding the main drives into the actual estate.

This is the room where most of the filming will be done, it is a large space and has wealthy features to it. The Christmas decorations will not be up when we do the filming.

The circle marker is the house and then the squares are the two entrances to the house drive. As you can see there is lots of surrounding land and trees, which works well with the wealth of the boys family.

 Emma's House

Laura houses will be used as the girls house. I live in Wymondham which is surrounded by lots of other houses, busy roads and manic lives. It will work well for Emma's home because she is lower class to Oscar so it would be expected that she would be surrounded by others in a hectic town. My house has the red ring around it which shows how close it is to other houses and roads. There is also no open land.

This room is where most of the filming will be done, it is a very small space and due to the walls being pulled apart and un-plastered would be ideal for Emma's house because it shows that she may not have enough money to redecorate/do it up. With the wires hanging out the wall, unfixed cupboards, pipes running down the wall and light switch not being attached, this shows how rough and unfinished it is. When we film, we plan to smash glasses and leave empty alcoholic bottles on the work surface. We would then film the work surface by panning across showing these smashed glasses and empty alcohol bottles.

As most of the filming is happening here, We have taken many different photos from different angles to show how run down and rough the kitchen looks like. This setting is perfect for the characters home.

This is the location on Google maps, as you can clearly see its surrounded by roads and other houses of similar features. We will be focusing filming in the rooms we have photographed.