EARNEST - Locations

The opening of our video will be set in my house, and we'll give the illusion that the two boys are in two different houses, both getting ready to go out and meet each other. We'll have Jay in a bedroom and Alistair in the bathroom, but only see Jay leaving, as he's the main character.

Our last project relied heavily on artificial lighting, and we're trying to pull away from that this time by shooting most of our film outside. We want our second location to be outside Belfast City Hall - it's a very notable landmark, which will firmly set our movie in Belfast, and there are clear colour schemes surrounding the building; white, green and blue, with occasional blacks.






We're hoping for good weather, but the biggest problem we can think of with using outside City Hall for our location is noise. It's on the busiest road in Belfast, and there are usually plenty of people hanging around on the benches, or walking past in the street. We want to avoid this by going in on a Sunday, but if it's looking like the area is too busy to use in peace, we have a second location planned, and that's the docks in the Titanic Quarter. 


The Titanic Quarter is another recognisable sector of Belfast, a far more recent one, and usually not as busy, especially on a Sunday. Wind might be a problem, but as remove closer to spring and further from winter, I'm confident that Mother Nature will be on our side (and if she's not, Cliona is a really great editor.)

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