PLANNING: Mise-en-scene

The performance part of our chosen final idea was set in a warehouse at Henry's Dad's factory: (Plasto-Sac East) in Bicker. The warehouse is a box factory that supplies boxes for the fruit and vegetables market in Lincolnshire. The building has three main areas of the factory, the production area, the offices and the storage warehouse. We are aiming to film our performance side of our promo video in the production area.

However, we will need to compromise a time and day that we are able to access the warehouse, due normal everyday practises such as the workers there.

Due to the warehouse being situated 20-25 minutes away from where we live, we will have to find our ways of transport there and back, along with all the equipment we take with us will be limited due to having to fit it in the boot of a car. This is due to the fact we will have to take instruments and strobe lights, along with extension leads etc. Another thing we will also have to consider is we will also have to either take lunch or find someone near to the factory to have some dinner.

The image above is a layout of the warehouse, the arrow pointing which is captioned 'where we will film' is a grey brick wall at the front of the warehouse. Due to what is situated within the warehouse e.g. various packaging boxes and lifting machinery therefore, when moving around the warehouse it is essential we comply with health and safety regulations by wearing Hi Viz jackets.

The narrative part of our chosen final idea will be set at Hannah's house, at 30 Swallow Hill in Thurlby. The reason behind setting our narrative side of our promo video, at an every day house, is to give of the impression that this could be a realistic everyday situation that could happen. The house is a modern account of a traditional home with Victorian style features such as a grand fire place. We aim to film around various rooms within the house such as the living room, bedroom, bathroom and kitchen.
However, due to the location of our narrative not being very imaginative and what could be classed as 'steroypical', this really motivates myself to create that high a standard of filming that it will cancel out any worry of this promo video looking unprofessional and not to the standard I would want it to be.

The advantages of filming inside a house is we are more able to control the lighting, due to have light switches that can dimmer or be made brighter depending on what effect you are trying to create. However, due to using natural lighting as well as lighting from light switches, we will only be able to shoot our footage during hours of natural light, being between 9am and 4pm.