Locations

The opening scene takes place outside the front gate of Wandsworth Prison with the emphatic prison walls being the backdrop to the shot with Luke emerging from doing his time. This location was ideal to use once I had decided on my plot because it is easily accessible from my home therefore meaning that my actors and the equipment will not have to be travelled long distances. The entrance to the prison is fairly stunning as one can see in the picture below and when choosing to use this prison instead of Brixton Prison I decided which one looks more obviously like a prison from the outside because of the inability to go inside the prison. From this picture and with the costume and attitude that Luke portrays in the opening I believe it is easy to establish what this building is.

 After this opening scene to my trailer the plot takes us to an urban house where the main character, Luke approaches the front door, knocks and awaits a reply. A young woman opens the door and a heated discussion between the two takes place at the front door step. The house I have decided to use, again is very easily accessible for all actors but it also shows the audience what type of film this is. The main character hasn't come out of prison with loads of money and opportunities and approaching a million dollar mansion, he's approaching an urban, terraced house in a London suburb. This location will be the symbol of hope for Luke, seeing as to be taken back into his ex's life he must gain her trust and be let into her home, therefore this house is seen later on in the trailer during the montage of clips as Luke runs by.

As the argument on the door step unfolds, the young woman brings up Luke's past and the consequences for his actions, for instance going to prison for 3 years, leaving his pregnant girlfriend to bring up a child by herself, and now the child has no idea who her father is or what it's like to have one. As the young woman talks about his past we cross-cut to a scene in a dark room where Luke and another man are seated on a sofa with a table in front of them with the pair dealing out money on the table into different piles. When edited, this scene will appear in black and white to confirm to the audience that this is in the past and is meant to signify the type of things that Luke was in to and why he went to prison. The location for this scene is in a living room which doesn't look too flash or have any obviously expensive equipment or furniture to keep in step with the low-budget, gritty nature that this film is trying to portray.

Another scene in my trailer takes place between the same men seated on the sofa in the previous scene in the living room. This time the two men are seated on a bench on a common discussing their differences and Luke is trying to be persuaded to return to his old habits and forget about his and ex and his daughter. The location below fits in with the gritty nature of the film with a bench which doesn't particularly look two comfortable and the shot from behind the bench certainly shows off the look of a London suburb which heightens the urban feel to my trailer.

The final location used in my trailer also takes place on the common, with shots of the main character, Luke, running in a tracksuit up and down a pathway. There is a similar look to the previous location by the bench with dark, sinister lighting as Luke ponders over what he should do, whether to carry on trying to prove to his ex-girlfriend that he is worth taking back and that he is a changed man or whether to turn back to his old pals and risk going back to prison but on the other hand get the thrills of making decent money through his selling and usage of drugs. The lighting of the whole trailer is fairly low-key and I believe that this adds to the urban, gritty nature of what my film would be like. Especially is this evident with this location; the dark nature of the underpass and a lot of grey with the concrete and walls, with the grass and leaves the only thing supplying some colour to this scene.