G321 AS: Main Task - LOCATION RESEARCH, PROPS & EQUIPMENT LIST

Our opening scene features three different locations:

1. The first is the room in which the protagonist Hayden, is held captive by the government for attempting to share their secret euthanasia plans. This location must be dark and dismal looking to infer to the audience that the protagonist is being unjustly locked up in a secret location that is out of sight from the public. Being the joint director of this film opening I would like to use low-key lighting, as I want to portray to the audience that the darkness and shadows cast connote the secrets that are being concealed from the population. According to our storyboard this location will be featured for 55 seconds of the opening scene. 
2. The second location is the long corridor where Hayden (after her escape) is seen peering around a wall watching the guard exit before running down it in order to reach the 'control room'. This will be featured for 20 seconds.
3. The third location is the Control Room. This will be again a dimly lit room, with computer monitors on every available surface. This is where Hayden will collect the hard drive containing vital information, before being shot by the guard. 

Potential Locations:

• Maidenhead ‘The Sounding Arch’ 

This is a potential location for our opening scene, as underneath the bridge there is a wall which if shot from a close up angle, could mirror an abandoned area. 

• Newlands Girl's School Art Room Corridor

This is a potential location for the corridor scene. The hallway features static lighting and white walls which could portray the senile 

• Newlands Girl’s School ‘Dark Room’

This is a potential location for the computer room scene, with the dark low-key lighting nature of the room perfectly creating a tense atmosphere. The red lighting (as evident from the photo below) is perfect for the final scene of the opening, as the protagonist is shot before she exits the room. The red light cast on the room from this light connotes blood and danger fitting with the mis-en-scene of the shot. This will create an abrupt ending and a cliff-hanger in order to entice the audience to continue watching. 

Props List:

• Rope - Which is used to tie up Hayden

• Tape (Silver Duct Tape) - Which is placed over Hayden's mouth. This is stereotypical symbolism of a hostage within action film.

• Sharp Rock - Used by Hayden to cut the rope in order for her to escape.

• Contract Paper - Handed to Hayden by a man in a black suit, she then signs the contract.

• Pen - Used to sign the contract.

• Radio - Old vintage looking radio which is shown in the first shot, after we have heard the radio transmission.

• Computer Monitors - Placed at the end of the dark room with coding onscreen.

Equipment List:

• Camera Rig

• Camera - Canon 700d

• Tripod

• Rode Microphone

• Umbrella Lights