Live Project 1- Locations

Filming a roller disco requires a hall. Therefore, it goes without saying that we had to find a hall. There were 4 locations we had in mind, a few of which we could get hold of but due to issues with the venue we couldn't use it. The locations we had in mind were, a church hall, a school hall, a roller derby and a bar.
The Church Hall

This is the exterior of the church, unfortunately I haven't got a photo of the hall but the main reason we had for not choosing this location was that it would more than likely be too small, also there was the issue that we may mark the floor with roller skates. We did not return to test the flooring with roller skates because we had already got a location by the time that it would have come to doing this.

The Roller Derby

The producer contacted all of the local roller derbies and we as a group looked for more derbies but we could not find one that would be willing to let us shoot in their building when we were looking to shoot. Although it is likely that the room wouldn't be what we needed anyway because they tend to be long and thin whereas we needed something more square.

School Hall

The school was almost perfect for our shoot, although we found that there weren't a huge amount of plugs for electricity which may have been an issue because we planned on using a few red head lights and some disco lights and a smoke machine so we need a good access to plugs. Also again we had the issue of potentially marking the floor and knowing that the hall is newly built I knew they would be particularly protective over this. Again, by the time it came to testing the floors we already decided upon a location.

The Bar

We eventually decided to shoot at a local bar called The Studio that ticked all the boxes for what we wanted. I don't want to talk about this too much on here because I am going to do an individual post for it.