Showing posts with label location. Show all posts
Showing posts with label location. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

First Scene Location Scouting

Location scouting; Right now, I'm looking for a place to shoot the first scene. We have three houses right now that we can pick from (ours), but there's a catch. What I want to do is to have a room with some chairs / sofa and a window to the backyard. One of our houses doesn't have a backyard that I know of. Our house has a room that might work, except that the view from the room is of our deck, not the ground. It might work, but would be less than ideal. The other house I haven't seen the backyard. 

So...

Daniel, does your house have any rooms with windows not very far off the ground in the back, and if so, could you send or post some photos?

We also have two other options. One is to greenscreen the window, for the video of the impact. I don't want to do this, as that means we will have to shoot locked down, which won't look as good, or use motion tracking, which I think we're going to be doing enough of already. The other is to have the satellite fall into the front yard. This is worth considering, especially for the last scene, when Zeke has a bunch of his friends around it, telling them what happened.

So, what do you think? What should we try? We have to decide soon, because we want to shoot the trailer soon.

I think we should shoot it so that the satellite falls in the front yard. If people agree, I'll change the script.
If we did this, we would preferably shoot it at your house, Daniel. Are there any rooms that would work for this?