Visit to Location and Update - 24/10/14

Today we visited Syd & Mallory to discuss the outcome of the pitch, confirm with the owners that they were still interested in being involved and take some recce photographs of the location. Sarah and I had a brief look around the store to establish possible places for interview set-ups and also to find any smaller details that could be interesting to film in terms of our poetic film. We also recognised some of the early problems with filming, such as each room in the store being quite small, which won't necessarily be too much of a problem if we plan out the positioning of the camera and ourselves before our first day of filming. However, this will mean that we won't be able to fit lighting equipment in the rooms, so we will have to make use of the lighting made available to us there. The store has a row of light bulb style lights along the front window (as shown below), which we discussed the possibles with visuals for, as one of the shots we aim to get is from across the road, a full-on view of the store (second image below) with the two owners standing next to each other outside, in the late afternoon/ early evening (just as it starts to get dark) and also one of these in the daytime for a back up too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Establishing Location

In store petition - Save Devonshire Street independents

Overall, we still feel positive about the idea and after having explored the space a bit more today, we feel that there are lots of interesting objects and small details that can add to our documentary and make it a bit more unique.

Location Recce images