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St. Paul’s Catholic College
Unit G324: Advanced Portfolio in Media
Locations
1.) Cedars Park, Sunbury
Cedars Park has a large, open plan space, and
typically connotes a sense of happiness and
freedom for anybody who uses it, giving users
‘diversion’ (Katz) from their daily lives and
enjoying themselves. This will be used, however, as
a ‘binary opposite’ (Levi Strauss) in our trailer, as
the female protagonist Lily will be followed by male
antagonist Ace, before being seemingly murdered.
Additionally, the bright colours will not be present,
as the setting will be filmed at during the night,
connoting a dystopian setting, which could be
perceived as scary or mysterious.
The actual shot of the swings for our trailer qwill
be taken from the side to be of our point of call.
As a group we decided that swings ‘Signfy ing’
(De Saussure) a dystopian effect on the audience
because of the way it creaks. This will be our
establishing shot and will be taken from a close
up to capture the chain of the swings. The swings
also connote that the trailer is for youths
(Hartley’s seven subjjectives) targeted at ages
between 13- 18 year olds.
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2.) The Admiral Hawke, Sunbury
The Grey Horse pub acts as a familiar setting that
the audience can ‘personally identify’ (Katz) with,
‘repeating’ (Steve Neale) the codes and
conventions of other soap operas such as
EastEnders and Coronation Street. It is the place in
which the characters celebrate significant events,
such as weddings and the birth of a child. The
setting itself connotes a warm, friendly atmosphere
and is used in a happier scene of the trailer. The
connotations of the name ‘Hawke’ gives the
audience a sense of the ‘all seeing’ which links in
well with our trailer, giving it a more mysterious
vibe.
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3.) Chapel, Sunbury, St. Pauls
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We decided to use the Chapel in school as our
prime location for the wedding. Our original
aspirations were to use the church in St. Ignatius
because it was more authentic than the school
chapel. However, we did have a change of heart
after a few complications with using the church
so we decided to use our local school chapel in St.
Paul’s. We wanted to use a church setting because
it connotes a happy and utopian mood for a
wedding day. From putting research into soap
opera’s we found out that a wedding is the
perfect strategy in creating that happy
atmosphere for it to be destroyed later on by the
antagonist.
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We will usethe chairs in the chapel for our
audience to watch the marriage. Since the
locationis a chapel wethought that this was
the perfect locationfor the marriageto take
place. In this scene, wewill mostlikely
collectstaff as well students from the sixth
form to help fill up spaces and make the
wedding look naturalistic as possible.

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4.) Bedroom
We used the house of another group member and most
specifically the bedroom of that house. We did this
because we wanted to portray our character Lilly as
actually waking up from a dream to make our trailer
look more realistic; more specifically we wanted to do
this because it was easier for all groups to film at one
persons house if needed. The bed was the most key
imagery out of all the other shots so we put all our
energy into making this footage perfectly presented.
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