11. Props and Costumes
We wanted to the props and costumes to be able to
enhance the representation of teenagers, we
decided to use a school as our location due to it
being a teen drama, with this the costumes were
quite easy to establish as we wanted school
uniforms. However, to enforce the stereotypes of
school uniform we wanted to ensure that they will
conform with stereotypes.
12. Location shots
As part of our pre-production we needed to scout different
locations in order to find the most effective location for out film.
To find the most effective location for the film we needed to
ensure that the location would be able to tell the audience more
about the character and the story.
The idea of our film is to relate to students at school, which is
why we chose to locate it at school however, to get the real
essence of it being students is to locate the film in the school
playground to see a conversation between the group of
students in order to get a real essence of what school life is and
more importantly how younger people act during school. The
main idea of our film is to showcase the day to day pressures of
school life and growing up and how this could affect certain
people and we wanted to get this across in our location.
Our only location is on the wall in the school playground and
this is essentially where the kids go to sit more importantly this
part of the wall is hidden away so teachers and other students
can see what they are doing, the reason that we decided to
locate it here is to ensure with empathise the pressures the
society has on the younger generation with them being
stereotyped of being secretive towards authority and older
generations. However, we decided this location on not only the
fact it is secretive but also to represent the stress they are
under and how they feel trapped – note the fence behind is
restricting the plants behind it and is also associated with
caging something and throughout our film the main character is
hiding something.
