Wednesday, 2 April 2014

Shooting Location

I will need to use a few locations in my short film to represent different things.
The main two representations are the females house and the males house, I want these to contrast.
So I am setting the males house in a more rural area:

And the females house in a town:


Another contrast I have used is the colours in their bedrooms, but keeping a similarity of a messy trait in the characters to show that they once were connected:
Males room:

Females room:




When I showed my location pictures to a focus group, somebody in the group mentioned that the bedrooms reminded them of an artist called Tracy Emin who created a piece called "My Bed", where she exposed her emotions about herself and her life through the 'mess' around the bed. I think I have done this with my shots by using the busy mise en scene to represent my characters.
Emin reveals intimate details from her life to engage the viewer and establish an intimacy with them, she has used an empty Vodka bottle, cigarette butts and stained sheets to show her own bed in all its "embarrassing glory". By using her own bed as art Emin is sharing her personal space, representing herself as as insecure and imperfect as the rest of the world.


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