The location we wanted was rather simple; we wanted a house with rooms in order to create our interweaving narrative. We first shot at a house in Longwater where we did not shoot enough within the time. We then had to start again and we shot at one of our group member's house. This house had the rooms we needed as well as a kitchen, allowing us to shoot out video. The shoot took 4 days total with days between each to go through our shots to find which we missed if any.
The best part about the house we shot in is that we could go back to re-film as it was one of our own group. It also conformed to the genre once we placed the fairy lights around the house it created a indie feel to it.
The only problem we encountered was organising actors to come and film the video which took a lot of effort.
In order to create our party atmosphere we placed lots of empty bottles around the house as well as red American-style cups. We also placed fairy lights over a sofa in the living room to give us a source of diegetic light in our shots. We also used food colouring to act as blood in the bathroom shots to show the dark undertone we are trying to create.
We also used a variety of costume in the video; ranging from a formal and preppy costume to dressed down and messy costume. This is done to go against the genre conventions of popularity as the costume portrays each character as a different 'type'. This mix of characters creates a variety of issues we can create in our video.
This post should have been written before your shoot - it would have helped you to have a more productive shoot! You need to include some photos of possible locations for your shoot and then write about the pros and cons of each setting.
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