Location Shots

We needed different locations to film at for our trailer. Each location would serve a different purpose and we would choose locations which we felt were perfect for the scene being filmed. We picked locations which were just right.

The first two locations we picked were to be used for the bike scene and the drive by scene. We needed locations which were safe to drive/ride on and which were not very busy. For the Bike scene we used Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham. This was the road just outside our school and filmed during school hours to avoid many cars driving up and down the lane.

For the drive by we used a road just off the road Naiem lives on. A perfect place to shoot the drive by scene as it was a very quiet road which had one way traffic. By this we would not have any disturbances whilst filming this scene.

This is where we shot the scene where Carmen Riqueza strangles one of Al Cientos men in the car. We also shot the briefcase exchange scene here. We picked this location as it was very private. This car park was just next to our school, so getting all the actors to be there was not a problem. Also the car park was big enough to for both vehicles and all the actors. There were very little disturbances when filming here.

This is were we decided to film the standoff. Naiems back garden was an ideal place to film the standoff. It is surrounded by large trees and alot of greenery. It was also very quiet and controllable and we were sure that there would be no disturbances when filming here. We actually decided to film on the roof of his conservatory so that we would not get any of his neighbors gardens in the scene.

This is where we shot the lighter scene as well as the scene with the saw. The garage was a perfect place to film as it was the most controllable environment out of all the places we shot at. We could ensure these scenes would be perfect here. We knew that we needed an environment like this, one which was private because we could not 'set someone on fire' or be bloodied with a saw in a public place without getting the wrong type of attention. The lighting was also very good as it was a dark environment to film dark scenes. It added to the feel of the scene tremendously.

This is the elevator we used for the elevator scene. It was a elevator used by the residence of Umed's sisters apartment building. We used this setting before in our AS Opening sequence and knew how we could best use it for our A2 piece.  The only problem with filming here was that some of the other residence would use the elevator so it took us a longer amount of time to film the scene.

This is Clock House Station. We filmed one of the smoking scenes here. We filmed at night when it was less busy and emphasized our themes and genre better. We decided on this location because it was very quiet at night and the type of lighting at the station was excellent during the night.











One location we did not use was the end of Upper Elmers End Road. We did not use this road as it was a main road which was constantly busy with cars and pedestrians. We wanted to originally film a shoot out scene here, but could not without raising attention with ours props.