A Blond in Love Recreation Project - Possible Locations

A Blonde in Love Recreation Project

Possible Shoot Locations

As a group we have got back together as we had planned, to find and take photos of potential locations we could use for the shots needed to recreate the given scene from A Blonde in Love. Firstly we discussed what we would need to get by looking through the powerpoint of of scene changes. When we had ideas of what we would be looking for we talked about different places we know already that might make for a usable location. After the discussions were through we decided to go out and around and take photos of places we would see that would be possibilities. One member of our group took the photos with a camera whilst the rest of us took evidence photos of him. We discussed more and evaluated the photos as we took them, looking at the angles we could capture from, the distance and framing of the shots too. There were some issues of health and safety we knew were apparent such as filming near a road where you could get ran over if you went onto it. There were also some issues with potential places such as not having access to them for the kind of shots we wanted and other places were too different even with attempts at compromising.

The first scene to get for the clip is that of a busy industrial estate area, where workers are filing out of the gates in large numbers. The location we saw was quite similar to this was this entrance way. Knowing that there is a security measure to leave, at a time such as lunch (midday) or later in the afternoon after most college lessons have finished, we could quite readily recreate the busy naturalism that is seen in the source clip. 

Just slightly down the way is a place where there can be the continuation of the clip's second shot. The image immediately above us has some good similarities such as the gating, although lower, is straight across the walk way and path that the actress takes. There is also a small tree in a similar place to where the post is in the source and makes a similar framing reference. There are of course things that don't work with this location such as the modern cars and glossy building in the back ground. A way to get past this would be to change the focus to have the background, to have the gate and people in focus instead.

Looking for a location for a window shot was very challenging as we didn't have access to many upper floors of buildings so the ones around the college were where are search mainly took place. We looked at the styles and positions first of all, the way that they are shaped and if we could  get people in them for the shot. The older looking windows style was very different and by the windows being too close it would be hard for the framing. The other high window opened a different way and whilst we could compromise with that, as you could get an actor in the space, the window just wouldn't open more than a couple of inches.

In this case we also tried to get a good angle on a low window to see if we could recreate the illusion of it being a high window and someone calling out.  Whilst a good idea and possible when we for low enough, we would need to find a way to keep the shot steady enough.

Other low windows were too small or too high for someone to be seen, whilst a chair or a step ladder could have been used this would have caused issues of safety for the actors.

Going back to higher windows, we found a couple that we could use but would have to be recorded from the other side as to the original source material. Though through discussion it was suggested that a crafty flip of these one time actors may not so noticeable. We also looked at other places outside and around to find more suitable locations.