Each one of the locations needs to have enough room to set equipment up, enough room to get different shot angles, and it needs to be somewhere that we can be there for a long period of time ( a whole day ) because if we filmed on different days, things could have been moved around in the room, which would affect our continuity.
The inspiration for the locations that we want come from films similar to ours, like 'Fight Club' and the short film 'The Black Hole'.
The Black Hole & Fight Club both feature the similar theme of a man bored of his mundane job. The dark tones used in the office and the dishevelled appearance help to visually illustrate the boredom felt by the two men. This lonely, depressing office enviroment is what we would like to recreate with our own film.
The problems we could face are: distance to travel; how we are going to get there; the light outside changing from day to night, affecting continuity; office availability; and space for camera.
We asked a local office space owner if we could use his office for making a short film. We told him the film idea and all of the requirements and he said that we are allowed to use the office from 4 till 10 on any day that we like.
There is a underground office with no windows that would be most suitable for filming because the weather wouldn't change if we were filming on different days. Also the underground room has more room to get lots of different shots. Because it's underground it would represent how he feels like he isn't part of the rest of the world and is quite isolated from everyone else in the world.
This is the room that we are looking at using because its a boring looking office which is perfect for our short film because its meant to look boring to fit with the style of the film.
We are going to take down the stuff on the wall so its just a plain and doesn't have any personality which will exaggerate how bored the person working there is, and how corporate and void of personality he is.
It's good that we're allowed to use this office from 4 till 10 because we can get all the filming done in one night and then the office wont change, which would affect the continuity.
We also need to use a kitchen for some of our scenes, conveniently there's a kitchen in the office. Again there's no windows, so continuity of the sky outside won't be a problem for us as we won't have to rely on natural light.
We also need to use a house for a location, mainly the bedroom and the hallway. This should be easy for us as we could film in any of our houses. We need to make sure that when we film in this location we do it in daylight, as the scene is meant to take place in the morning.
The other location is on a bus. Even though it may be a little bit awkward filming on a bus if there's people around and carrying heavy equipment, the scene on the bus is only based of one or two shots so shouldn't be too time consuming. Again this would have to be filmed in daylight to make it look like it's the morning.
However in all of this, we must consider the health and risks, and plan accordingly should we have to face any.
