Week 5: Location Scouting for Kidnapping Scene

LOCATION SCOUTING

After walking around my neighborhood, I was constantly thinking to myself, "what will make the kidnapping scene stick out?" There had to be a combination of good acting, movement, and a memorable location. I stumbled across the outside of an old home that had a wavy brick wall. I thought, with the eerie looking sky and a unique, but serious conveyed architectural design, this would work perfect for the film. The only problem was that the wall was right next to the street, and it would make no sense to film a kidnapping scene with cars going back and forth watching the kidnapping happen. This would be a major flaw in the authenticity of the film. So I had a choice to move the location or make the viewer believe that the wall was in a semi-remote location, or at least a place with no road. 

I set up my tripod to shoot video not showing the street. Before each clip, I would make sure that the road was not shown. There were at least 3 times when a pedestrian was walking there dog and took the same path as us. We just waited until they were out of frame and continued to shoot. The last clip was a little inconvenient to set up, but in the end, gave a really cool artistic angled shot. The problem was that a tiny piece of the street was being shown in the bottom left corner of the frame, and that was unacceptable. I rearranged the shot so that it would not disrupt the killer's (me) running and Christians stopping. 



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