Location Scouting Part 1: Indoor Setting

Location - Room 119, Photography Studio, UCA Rochester campus

In my short film there are multiple locations considered indoors, specifically Room 119 (Photography Studio) at the Rochester campus as well my own and my friend's house (which I will not show photos of in order to respect their privacy) who is also the main actress involved in the short film. There are two parts to the my film which are indoors and outdoors; so I have decided to document my location scouting in that way. I believe that I was rather restricted in terms of picking indoor spaces, as a student as opposed to a professional in the industry with a budget to rent out spaces etc, but to me, this did not matter as I treated the spaces that were available to me like a film set.

On my storyboard I needed to shoot 3 panels out of the 14 on my storyboard which are actually part of the overall plot; which may not sound like a lot but I actually put more work into these scenes than I did for the outdoor scenes. The storyboard is shown below;

In these scenes the character is in her room and she gets up, and puts on her coat (in the porch). Rather than use an actual house to shoot this scene I used Room 119 which is the Photography Studio on the Further Education floor. Like a film set, it is more open and has more space rather than shooting the scene in an actual bedroom, where there is not much scope for adjusting lighting and angles for filming.

I used the UCA Virtual Tour feature available online (https://www.uca.ac.uk/campuses/virtual-tour/rochester/) in order to capture some screenshots below of the location I picked.

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Works Cited “Google Maps.” Google Maps, www.google.com/maps/@51.3814404. Accessed 30 May 2022. “Rochester.” Www.uca.ac.uk, www.uca.ac.uk/campuses/virtual-tour/rochester/. Accessed 30 May 2022.