Drama - Change of Location

Unfortunately we have had to change for scenes set in the father's front room. This is because we were finding it extremely difficult to find a suitable living that went with the aesthetics of the film we was trying to thrive for.

Using student living areas was completely out of the question as they are dull and uninteresting to the eye lacking anything that can be eye catching and went with the theme of our theme.

Alice (producer) had an option to shoot the scenes at her godparents' house in Chesterfield, this would have been great as it is not far to get there and travel costs would be very low, also from Alice's description of the house it had the right look we was hoping for. Even though Alice's godparents accepted and were more than happy to shoot at their house, unfortunately this couldn’t happen as Alice's godparents wasn’t available within our schedule so we ran the risk of leaving it too late.

Therefore Katie (editor) recommended that we change the setting of the house to Jack and his father having the 'coming out' scenes in a bar she works at called 'Maggie May's'. After Katie asked for permission to shoot in the bar her manager much obliged giving us early mornings before the bar opened to shoot the scenes we needed to.

Now as visual arts director I am GUTTED about this as I will not be able to use any of the amazing props I have obtained for the film. This is because it will be impossible to make the bar look like a front room and the props just wouldn't suit the location, looking 'out of place' and tacky.

However, on a higher note Maggie May's is a 60's, 70's and 80's themed bar with a number of posters of popular and famous musical artists that were around during those era's. Therefore working with the era and visual aesthetics we are going to achieve. The décor in the bar has the right combination of colours and patterns as well for our era the film is based in that will look brilliant on screen. Also, even though I didn’t get to use the props I got for the film, at least I have still got the costumes to be creative with and I can use the props in another film in the future.