Unit 8 - Planning (Locations + Mood Board)

When it comes to the location of where I want my short film to be set, I have decided that the perfect location would be in a park, somewhere where it is full of nature and because it is an area where most dogs are associated and familiar with. I was mostly inspired by this location when I was annotating the Spanish film which was called the Dog Lady. I felt like this environment would be really nice, especially if I wanted get some good scenery shots.

Since their is a park near college I thought that their could be a possibility that I could film my short film in King George's park, merely because it is a location that is not to far to get to (meaning that my actors and actresses would get their hassle free) and because the park in that location is very huge and wide, it also a park that is not often busy on the field part of the park, meaning that shooting would be more easier and executed well, since their is a lower population of people on the field area. Lowering the risk of me and production crew to get interrupted or distracted by people.

The start and ending of my short film will be set in a park, showing scenes of my main character chilling in the park behind a tree stump and the situations that lead up to that where they are interrupted by a group of their friends that want to engage in a conversation. The friends of main character talk about how he/she should make more friends and download this new app leading to a switch to occur in my main character where instead of them being an dog lover they turn into a dog hater. I have decided that the park location will be the only location in my short film and this because I feel like having one location means that me and my production team would be able to get the most out of production, since we won't be traveling to different types of locations. I feel like if I do chose to use King George's park as my definite location, it would be great as it is a location that is accessible to everyone and the closes to the college.

Below is a Mood Board of images of what I want my location to look like and the features I want it to have. I do this, so I can bring my ideas to life visually to not only to me but to you guys my readers.

Here is another version of my mood board so you can see it enlarged if you struggled to see the image.