Finding Locations / Talent

Locations

As producer I took responsibility to try and find actors and locations for the piece. As soon as Bexs, initially said about the long road I know that we would be able to film this an Norfolk Park, so this was one of the three locations sorted. Also as someone said about filming the sun rise we would be able to use Norfolk Park.

View up entrance path

View over City

For the scenes that take place in the kitchen and hall way Bex offered to use her house. This meant that the shooting times would be flexible as we were able to use her house as we needed. The scenes that do take place are the morning scene in which John is sitting at table and Amy is nagging at hime about bills and how he never goes out etc. We will also need to film scenes in which he is leaving and returning from work and taking his ring off to leave for good.

Map of Kinnaird Road where Bex house is.

The third location that we needed were offices. This was so that we could film shots with similar framing to at home but instead of having Amy nagging we will have Johns boss nagging. Rubys mum works at Knutton Road Studios and Ruby managed to talk to her mums boss and ask is it would be possible for us to use an office space. He kindly agreed and we managed to secure out last location.

Outside view of Knutton Road Studios

Map of Knutton Road

Talent

Now that we have sorted out the location I took started looking for actors to play our characters. From being producer in the experimental project I had contacted several performance students so asked the initially if they would be willing to help. Nathaniel McCartney was really interested in helps us and really liked the whole concept for our piece. Through him I managed to secure Francesca as Amy. This then left the boss character. As we wanted an older boss Paul offered to play the role if we were unable to find a suitable person to play the role.