Here we are again, another week has passed and here we are ready to update you on what has gone on. Well... we are desperately trying to push on with the film, we have had to draw a line under the script/screenplay for now and move onto the next task in hand. Well the task for this week has mainly been about Location.
Our screenplay is set in a family home with three main scenes, a bedroom, bathroom and kitchen. You would think this would be easy to find somewhere to shoot a rather simple short, so did we in some respects. The location of the location is quite relevant because this will affect where we will be casting and coupled with the fact half of us lives South East and the other half in the Midlands (in the UK) trying to find a convenient spot for all has some challenges. The other challenge is that although we require what first appears to be a simple location, we did have a few requirements. Although our screenplay is set in modern day we want the audience to believe it is set in the 80's and the house itself needs to be a shrine to the 80's period. Before anyone mentions "dress the set" we have taken into account that with a few props we could make reference to the 80's, however, like most properties they have evolved with the times. Our bedroom, bathroom and kitchen scenes need to scream 80's, most places have been modernised. We find a place with an 80's looking bathroom only to find the kitchen is something out of the future, or we find the perfect kitchen and the bathroom has a modern wet room installed. See our problem?
The kitchen scene is the pivotal scene and is where the family congregate, so it has to be big enough to host a table for a family to sit around, which ultimately means that we are looking at a larger family home. We both generally believe if we can get the right kitchen we can probably get the rest of the scenes looking right, so this was/is the area we are focusing on.
We are on a micro budget so filming at different locations isn't practical nor financially possible, so going back to the theme of our last blog, lets find a man/woman who can we thought we should look for a professional. Well we did and we found a number of companies specialising in sourcing specific locations and a few looked like possibilities, until that is when they gave us the price. Unfortunately we have found that although these companies can source locations for filming, specific film locations carry a very hefty price tag. We would like to thank UKfilmlocation.com for entertaining our request and providing us with some possibilities. Their website can be found here. www.ukfilmlocation.com
So back to the drawing board. We made an appeal via some of the online communities and forums to see if anyone could offer us any ideas and thank you to +David Ollerton for giving our request some exposure, unfortunately this avenue didn't produce any results.
Ultimately we have decided on renting a holiday home which offers us with the best balance of 80's/modern day presentation. We hope that with a few strategically placed props we will be able to convince the audience that this film is set in the 1980's. Which conveniently leads us to our next blog, copyright. We have quickly discovered that using simple everyday products, a rented holiday home for a location and branded products in our film opens up a very deep pit of legalities of what can and can't be done. So much so we are surprised that any film ever gets made. Oh, where have those days gone where in our childhood naivety we thought we could make films how we liked, where we liked and when we liked.
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