All of our locations are based in and around a coastal town
called Newquay. We made the joint decision to shoot here as it’s nearby,
picturesque and is well known around here for its good surf. There are surf
shops littered around the town and more surf schools than I could count on both
hands. This location also has the advantage of us being very familiar with it, and therefore being able to accurately plan our shots for each shooting day.
We aim to use the surf school to interview two surf teachers
for an interesting yet relevant and effective narration over the top of our
opening. Rather than using actors for this we felt real surfers would work a
lot better as they have a particular sort of lingo and can speak more
naturally. We are more fussed about the interviews than the actual location,
although upon googling the school we were relived to find there was at least a
suitable background for the interviews. However had this not been the case, we
would have just filmed down at the beach instead to keep it relevant to our
genre. The Surfboard Factory is for our surfboard shaping footage, chosen as it’s
close to the beaches we also want to film at. We are unfamiliar with this
location but we are only aiming to get some close ups and focus on the shaping
of the surfboard, rather than the background. We want to film at the Escape
Surf Shop as this suits our beach theme and the mise-en-scene appropriately
fits in with the genre. One on our teachers is friends with the shop owner
therefore granting us hours to film there, and our teacher was able to
photograph the shop before we arrived at the location. Watergate Bay, Towan
Beach and Mawgan Porth were chosen due to their excellent surf and general aesthetically
pleasing scenery. With the beaches our aim is to travel over whenever there’s
good weather or when we go to the surf school and shaper shop to ensure we get
as much good surfing footage as possible. At Towan and Watergate Bay we will
also film shots of our actors/actresses walking down to the beach as the walks
down to them again suit the beach theme, as you can see the sea. Watergate Bay
is even better for this as we can film along the cliff face.
We
felt that these locations could be justified
as they better represent our Cornish/British target audience by linking to
Higson’s theory of regional identity as we follow the stereotypes of Cornwall
being an area of outstanding natural beauty where young people live a beach
lifestyle that is, ‘Trouble and fun,’ which also links into Osgerby’s 1998
theory to represent our target audience.
In
other words, we're deciding to use a well-known Cornish beaches and
show the route down to those popular surfing spots which makes the film feel
personal to our target audience who will buy into the world we are creating as
it is familiar to them which fits into Barthe’s theory as it allows the
audience to enjoy the film as we have made it a believable setting.
Good organisation - you could include photos to show these areas
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