R+P Post 15: Our planned filming loacation and set design

We planned on filming at six locations:

1. Alex's house
2. Arnos Grove Train Station
3. Southgate Train Station
4. Oakwood Train Station
5. Arnos Park
6. The Seward Studio (located in The Latymer School)

Shooting in Alex's bedroom

Alex's bedroom was the perfect location for the hacking scenes, for there was a laptop there we could use for the hacking shots and it was located close to Arnos Park and Arnos Grove train station, where we were to film some of our shots. We didn't want our main character to seem like just an ordinary teenager, so the bland set design of just a table, laptop, wardrobe and white walls made the character seem more grown up instead of having posters, toys and clothes around that would make him seem like a stereotypical teenage character instead of the hacker he really was.

We filmed at train stations, because they could show that our film was set in London and that the hacker was travelling. It also helped building the mystery to the character working for the conspiracy organisation, who were tracking his GPS and following him to underneath the bridge, where he gets held at gun point and knocked down, for the tube is a place that is mysterious, for there will always be a lot of strangers there and it's a place where people don't talk much, so it adds to the drama and intensity of the action-thriller genre when he does find he's being followed by a stranger. We couldn't alter the set design for the tube

Arnos park was a useful location to shoot at due to the impressive, large train arches that we could use to film under for the chase scene, which would also offer us and our equipment shelter from the rain when filming. Also the park was near Alex's house and the Arnos Grove station. The aesthetic of the arches seemed to match the gritty edginess that we were looking for when choosing the location. The greatness of the height of the arches made it seem an intimidating place to be chased under. We couldn't alter the park itself for set design, but decided that doing the film under the arches let us experiment with such a unique location for filming.

The Seward Studio is located in the Latymer School and has many computers back there allowing us to upload the clips of the CCTV footage and to also have the screen of the hacker cropped onto the government, conspiracy organisation's computer screen in order for them to show that they know that they're being hacked. The location seemed very high-tech and we could alter the lighting both artificially and naturally to best suit the type of lighting we were looking for. When made sure the lighting for set set design was dark and mysterious yet visible for them to see the characters and what was going on. We closed all the blinds and used some artificial lighting near the computer desk.