The
locations we needed for our film noir were a large, fancy looking house for
Reece Freeman, a smaller house to be Sylvia’s town house, an alley way for a
drugs deal, two offices (one for Reece Freeman and one for John Barnacles) and
a large outdoors area for Freeman to murder Rex. The locations we chose are as
follows:
Freeman
Manor
We chose to use my house as the location of Freeman Manor as it is a very big and grand looking house in the countryside which reflected the character of Freeman well. Also as the house is old (built in 1632) it would fit in with the time our film is set as it would not look to modern. Also as the house is quite dark (particularly in the bad weather in which we filmed) it fit well within the style of classic film noir films in which the locations are often rather dark and shadowy.
We chose to use my house as the location of Freeman Manor as it is a very big and grand looking house in the countryside which reflected the character of Freeman well. Also as the house is old (built in 1632) it would fit in with the time our film is set as it would not look to modern. Also as the house is quite dark (particularly in the bad weather in which we filmed) it fit well within the style of classic film noir films in which the locations are often rather dark and shadowy.
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| Freeman manor exterior |
Sylvia’s town house
We chose this house to be Sylvia’s town house as it is smaller than the main Freeman house as well as the fact that it is a somewhat secluded house relates to how Sylvia and Rex’s affair is taking place in secret and away from everyone. The seclusion of the house also mirrors the mystery of the film. This house was also chosen for practical reasons. Due to the fact the house is in Ashwell, the same place we filmed two other scenes, it allowed us to film several scenes in one day thus saving time.
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| Town house exterior |
Drug deal
alley
When we wrote the screenplay we planned to have the drug deal take place at the freeman house but we changed it to take place in a dark alleyway as we wanted to have more urban locations in our film in order to fit with the conventions of classic film noir films. We chose this alleyway as we wanted to film the scene at night therefore making it more mysterious dark and the single streetlamp fit with the classic convention of single source lighting and allowed for some superb and eerie silhouettes of the characters. Also the walls on either side reflected the fact of how the drug dealer was stuck in Freeman’s trap and that there was no escape when he shot him. Another great thing about this location was the nearby road that gave us the diegetic sound of cars going by which added to the urban city feel that we wanted our film to have.
When we wrote the screenplay we planned to have the drug deal take place at the freeman house but we changed it to take place in a dark alleyway as we wanted to have more urban locations in our film in order to fit with the conventions of classic film noir films. We chose this alleyway as we wanted to film the scene at night therefore making it more mysterious dark and the single streetlamp fit with the classic convention of single source lighting and allowed for some superb and eerie silhouettes of the characters. Also the walls on either side reflected the fact of how the drug dealer was stuck in Freeman’s trap and that there was no escape when he shot him. Another great thing about this location was the nearby road that gave us the diegetic sound of cars going by which added to the urban city feel that we wanted our film to have.
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| Alleyway |
We decided to use Ashwell springs for the location of our final scene (the one in which Freeman murders Rex) as we wanted a large, open air, secluded area to film in. The springs is populated with a large amount of trees which makes the area dark and eerie which reflects the mood of the scene. It is also similar the woodland area in which a similar execution takes place in the neo noir film ‘Miller’s Crossing’ which we took some inspiration from when writing this scene. Also the long set of steps that lead down to springs, which Freeman leads both Rex and Sylvia down at the start of the scene, allow for a build-up of tension which we thought was crucial to this scene.
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| Ashwell Springs |
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| Ashwell Springs (steps) |
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