Task 6: Location Shots

Establishing Shot:

We chose to have an establishing shot of London in the opening of our trailer, we felt this was necessary as it is where the film will be set. In earlier research we picked up on that in a lot of action film trailers they use establishing shots at the beginning of their trailers to set the scene, for example the trailer for Legend and James Bond: Specture. As we want our film to appeal to a global audience having an establishing shot of London will immediately attract viewers from other countries who take an interest in english culture. As it wouldn't actually be possible for us ourselves to film an establishing shot of London from a Birdseye view, we had to use a found shot which we got off youtube that went around all the main places in London such as; big ben, houses of parliament and all the sky scrapers in London. We think the shots we found for this were really good as they highlighted the main areas that London is known for, therefore meaning that when an audience watch our trailer, without being told they will immediately know the film is going to be shot. This also makes our film appeal to a audience that love the London culture.

Shot of London Streets:

We are using the streets of London in our trailer as we think that London is a much more interesting place to film compared to the streets in Bromley and Beckenham. We think by filming it in London it would make our trailer more eye-catching and appealing to different audiences. We are going to film just off the road of Oxford Street, near Selfridges as all the roads around this area are filled with expensive cars, wide roads and really tall buildings which would look really interesting on film. The atmosphere of London is something which really captivates us as it is always so lively and is often associated with business workers and profession. We feel like this atmosphere is appropriate to our film trailer as we want it to look as serious as possible. Also most action/crime films that are filmed in England are mainly based around London as i
t is such an interesting place to film and is somewhere the audience will immediately recognise. This is one road we filmed on called Wigmore Street which was a road off Oxford Street near Portland Sqaure. We chose this road to film on as it set a really busy atmosphere for a good location shot. Also when we were filming here loads of iconic London features appear in shots such as black taxi's and really fancy cars.



Another place we filmed was just outside a hotel called The Hyatt Regency London - The Churchill. This was a hotel just off Oxford Street. We didn't originally plan to film outside a hotel, however when walking past looking for new places to film in London we stumbled across this very posh hotel which had a black Lamborghini outside. Having an expensive car in a film/film trailer is a very James Bond thing to feature, and really sets a very cool and sophisticated feel to a film trailer, which are theme which are presented very commonly in action/crime films. By filming outside this hotel it was almost as if we were renting out an expensive car to feature in our trailer, but for free!

Apartments In London Shots:

Another location we wanted to film was outside and expensive looking apartment/house in London, as we wanted to make it appear that our character lived in London. We knew that in Gloucester Place they had really expensive and eye catching apartments and buildings which looked like stereotypical London houses. When searching around for locations we could film our character outside we spotted this restaurant which looked like a house on the outside and immediately knew that this is where we would be filming! We thought we could get some really nice shots of our main character walking out of the door from different angles low and high, to make it look like it was her house or a mysterious building which she was leaving. The two large black doors we really liked and thought they would look really good on camera. However we knew we would have to be careful filming outside someones house/ a restaurant like this as it is private properly so we had to do it discreetly.

London Oxford Street:

As we were filming in London, we knew it would be silly of us to not film in one of Londons best known streets; Oxford Street. By the time we got to Oxford Street after exploring in London for places to film, it was quite dark and the whole of Selfridges was really well illuminated which we thought looked really interesting and camera! We wanted to film on Oxford street as we know its a really vibrant and busy road with lots of atmosphere and so much going on all the time! However we knew it would be really difficult to film on Oxford Street due to the masses of people constantly walking around and it would be really difficult to set up a tripod in the middle of a really busy street! So we thought about using Oxford Street just for a place where we could film location shots, as location shots on film trailers really take up a huge majority of the trailer itself for a lot of the time.