Location Recce

Location Recce

Stamford Bridge (Chelsea’s stadium) located in Chelsea London, SW6. We chose this location because we needed to capture realistic footage of football fans in their element; in order to gain a meaningful insight into the tribal instinct that is presented in football scenarios.  We will achieve this by purchasing tickets and entering the stadium ourselves. In addition, pre – match, we will execute Vox Pops for our documentary. This is an effective way of capturing snappy, quick and quirky interviews to engage an active audience. Although, this location is perfect for what we’re looking for, it does present its hazards. One of these hazards is down to the fact that it will be an extremely congested area. The mass of people may initiate its own problematic issues, for instance: sound quality may be affected and we would have to restrict our frame to a tight one to avoid any distractions.

The regulations behind it do not apply to us as we have contacted the firm and they have stated it doesn’t matter – this is down to the fact that everyone else does it!

At our school (Overton Grange) the facilities aren’t that bad and so we utilise this factor. The scenes shot at school is for our model applying his tribal face paint in order to bring stability to the linear narrative. There are no issues surrounding this location and so this location is a very productive and efficient way of shooting needed footage.

Another location that we will conduct our documentation is at our local Police Station. We have chosen this location to shoot at, as we need to obtain visuals – particularly cutaways – that are relevant to our anonymous Police Officer interview. In order to gain footage to break up the interview, add dynamics to the narrative, which will in turn engage the demographic more sufficiently. These shots may consist of visuals of an integration room, Police car and equipment etc. There are no access difficulties due to our forward thinking, we have opened up a channel of communication with a Police Constable who has informed us that it has been approved.

Also, other locations will include various local parks in order to shoot reconstructed footage. A Black & White filter will be implemented over the top in order to give the audience a sense and a feeling of the time back in the late 70s and 80s. There are no difficulties at the park due to easily accessible parks near us and we won’t go at prime times. If any problems arise we will deal with them promptly.

The last location we will be documenting at is a studio in the heart of Central London W1. This will be an excellent facility to use as it provides a good sense of disclosure and is indeed perfect for conducting interviews. The anonymous and hooligan interview will take place in this environment to optimise the experience the primary audience will receive when viewing these tense interviews. As I’m a well-connected person, I know people in London within the industry who have offered to let us use the studio whenever we need to.

Done By Paris and contributed by Joe