OCR A2 Media Studies - Unit G324 - Locations

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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 actual shot of the swings for our trailer will be taken from the side to be our point of call. As a group we decided that swings ‘Signify’ (De Saussure) a dystopian effect on the audience because of the onomatopoeia of the sound from the swings ‘creaking’. This will be our establishing shot and will We will use this part of the shot to portray Lilly walking down the park while on the phone. We would like our character to do this in order to represent a sense of her “age” (Hartley’s Seven Subjectives). A teenager is most likely to be seen with their mobile device and so this also gives off a sense of 1

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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 colors 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 will be taken from the side to be our point of call. As a group we decided that swings ‘Signify’ (De Saussure) a dystopian effect on the audience because of the onomatopoeia of the sound from the swings ‘creaking’. 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 subjective) targeted at ages between 13- 18 year olds.

We will use this part of the shot to portray Lilly walking down the park while on the phone. We would like our character to do this in order to represent a sense of her “age” (Hartley’s Seven Subjectives). A teenager is most likely to be seen with their mobile device and so this also gives off a sense of “caregivers”(Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs), in order for our intended audience to relate to the protagonist. We will most likely pan her motion in order to keep (Lilly) in focus.

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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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We will use this area of the pub to demonstrate “working-class community” (Hartley’s seven subjectives). More specifically we will have two of our characters (Lilly and Liam D) flirting with one another, so an element of ‘male gaze’ (Laura Mulvey) will be used in this location. This was also chosen as one of our prime locations to give-off an element of “caregivers” (Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs) to convey the pub as a regular social occasion. The connotations of the pub represent a sense of celebration and liveliness, which provides a utopian atmosphere.

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3.) Chapel, Sunbury, St. Pauls Catholic College

We will 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 Catholic College. We wanted to use a church setting because it connotes a romantic and emotional atmosphere 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 potentially destroyed later on by the antagonist.

At the very back we will have the antagonist standing fixated at the two characters in matrimony. This will signify “misogony” against Lilly, which is what the aim of Ace’s apperence will be in the trailer. We will have him wearing a black coat in order to conceal his identity.

We will also use this space for two of our characters to get married. We would have to move a few objects across the room to make everything clear and focused on them.

We will use the chairs in the chapel for our audience to watch the marriage. Since the location is a chapel we thought that this was the perfect location for the marriage to take place. In this scene, we will most likely collect staff 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 will use this location to represent the final scene of our trailer when Lilly wakes up from her dream. We possibly need a night-gown and the antagonist to be sleeping next to her to further the plot of the trailer.

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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