Location

We are basing the location of the film on our main character, Owen Haynes. We thought about the type of character he is and decided that part of portraying this would be his environment. We thought that it should be set in a small rundown part of a town which has always had a bad reputation, and is struggling to change it due to things like vandalism, gangs, theft, drugs, etc. This is so that you can see where some of his violence, and of the childrens' violence in his childhood, have partly come from. It also adds to getting across his overall character.

We thought about places in which we could go and film in which match our specification. We have found a place to film, which has a long, vandalised alley leading to an area with some buildings and a park. The park could remind the audience of the references to his childhood, and also add to the effect of the area as it is stereotypical of gangs of teenagers to hang around in parks. The alley has connotations of crime, too.

We also would need a gym to film in, for the boxing parts of our sequence. Boxing is one of the main themes of our film so it needs to be strongly conveyed and would show the passion our main character has for it. Additionally, it needs to be in a gym to make it realistic and believeable, so we have thought about using quite a small gym to make sure it fits in with the environment and the lack of money that the area would have to spend on it.