Location, Location, Location

This is the list of all the locations that we used in our filming
• Alex’s House,
Shotgate

• Alex, The,
Southend

• Beauchamps High School- DT room,
Wickford

• Beauchamps High School Playground/Car park,
Wickford

• Burnt Mills Industrial Estate, Basildon

• Chatham Maritime Marina

• Southend Sea Front

• Royals Shopping Centre,
Southend

• Southend Victoria Station Car Park
Southend


For our production we used a wide variety of locations. Mise-en-scène is one of the most important and along with props we used location to create the scenes appropriate to the film.
Our choices of locations were primarily dictated by availability, suitability and accessibility, but some locations, such as Chatham Marina, was the only place that the boat scenes could be shot, because that was where the boat was. Southend, we decided would be a good place to get a lot of the filming done. It is a local place that we know well, is easy to get to and has a good variety of different places within a relatively small area. Another way we chose locations is, whilst we’re were planning the shot lists, thinking of them as they would be in a certain location, such as the shot in my house with James using the computers.
Some locations, such as the Royals Shopping Centre and The Alex, a pub in Southend we had to ask permission to film there. We phoned ahead from school to the shopping centre to explain what we wanted to do and where we would be doing it. The Alex wasn’t as much of a problem as Josh knows the management and getting permission wasn’t difficult to arrange.