R+P Post 15: Our filming location, set design and props

Three of the most important aspects of many films are the filming location, set design and the props shown, and this is equally important in our opening sequence, so we had to make sure we knew exactly what we were going to do for these 3 aspects.

These are the top-down plans for our indoor filming locations.

Our opening sequence requires three filming locations, all close together. These are a bedroom, a kitchen with a garden which can easily be seen from inside, and a stretch of street. We have decided to use Sian's house because her kitchen fulfills the criteria with large windowed doors that the garden can be seen through. She also lives near a large stretch of street that has no cars on either side which is ideal for our outdoor scenes. Her bedroom is also the kind of room we were visualising for the 'waking-up' scenes.

These two images show an example of set dressing, as the picture on the left shows the cabinet of drawers before we dressed it appropriately for Shots 6 and 7-9 and the picture on the right showing what we had achieved once it had been dressed.

We also dressed the kitchen similarly, removing stacks of papers and generally making the place look more clean and neat, to fit in with our lawyer character's character. 

The props we used were:

- a traditional alarm clock

- a Belt

- a ring

- a mobile phone

- some lipstick

- a hairbrush

- the radio

- a glass of water

- numerous files on the kitchen table

- a post-it note

- a pen

- glasses

- (Self-made) release forms

- a neck band as typically worn by lawyers

- a work handbag

- high heels