We wanted to make sure that for the opening scene with the two hooligan groups walking towards each other, was somewhere remote and dark. This way it looked more dangerous and it had a sense of tension, we wanted it so you could barely see the groups so that it would intrigue the audience. To do this we decided to pick the Lower Site drive way in George Spencer Academy.
The road I am talking about can be seen in the picture, the road marked with a red line.
We chose this spot because it has a very long, narrow, straight road which was perfect for the scene of the groups walking towards one another. It added suspense as they both walked the same long road, in a straight line, towards each other, it almost seemed as if there was no way out or no way of backing down once they had started walking.
As for the rest of the thriller, we decided that we needed to be inside a house, this would help us show both of the groups going about their morning, comparing the two. So for this we used Harry Edwards' house. We came to this decision as it was the closes of all of our houses, and this would give us more filming time, and therefore could work on specific shots with time to spare.
This is Harry's house, and not only was it convenient to use, but it fits the convention. Hooligans are stereotypically in working class and some in middle class, therefore they won't be living in a mansion, nor will they be living in a council house, its somewhere in between. We all came to the conclusion that Harry's house fits that description.
The inside of Harry's house, was the exact setting we were hoping for. A house that would be seen as 'normal' and the perfect interior for a hooligan, this meaning nothing was abstract, it was simple.
It looked natural, not as if we were trying to change things in his house to fit the stereotype.
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