Recce

Recce 

Exterior- Building

Our movie needed to be filmed in an old looking house, to represent the house the Grandmother and Roseanne currently lived in. We needed a place that looked old fashioned but also somewhere that had a high class. We found that Bolehall Manor Club was the perfect place to film. Bolehall Manor Club first opened as a private members only club in 1939 and was previously home to the Egyptologist Rev.MacGregor. 

Outside the Manor runs a brick wall and the street. This would be good to use for when the mysterious man is walking towards the house to post the letter for Roseanne. A medium shot of the wall could be used or a close up of the wall and street, showing the mans feet walking could be used. The red brick of the building is also very good as it can be used to symbolize death and even though the film would be in black and white, we could focus on one colour to be shown throughout e.g-red.




The steps leading towards the front door would be a good place to get a close up of the mans feet . The camera could be placed at the top and film the mans feet as he progresses up the steps at a high angle. The front door is very large and made of wood which shows its age and links back to the idea that the house is very old and grand. 


  

 Here is a close up of the letter box on the door. The black frame makes it stand out against the wood and would show the audience it is a letter box. A close up like this one could be used when the man posts the letter through the letter box. 

This is a close up photograph of the window from the outside which is currently part of the restaurant but will be transformed into Roseanne's office. The black framing of the windows again make it stand out and so a shot of this window could be used in our movie to set the scene some more.

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Interior- Hallway

Once through the front door there is a separate hallway area which includes stairs going to the next floor and a door further down which gives access to the current bar. A red door separates the hallway and the area by the front door. Once again this door and area could be used when the Grandmother comes and picks up the letter from the floor below the letterbox.

This is the letterbox from the inside view. The letters would normally fall into a box (right top) that would have to be manually opened. This could be a problem with our opening as the Grandmother would have to open the box and get the letter which would take much longer. Instead it would be easier if the box was open (right bottom) as you would be able to see the letter being posted and then falling on the floor to be then picked up.

A high angle shot could be taken from here of the Grandmother carrying the letter towards the door to be taken upstairs via the main stairway. The problem with this shot is that the door has many stickers and there is a photo-frame on the wall which would get in the way of the shot.

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Interior-Stairs






This is a shot of the main stairs plus the extra stairs that carry on to the snooker room. This room will not be needed in our movie and so a shot like this at the base of the stairs may not be appropriate Once again there is a red colour scheme but with white edges (the banister) instead of black which will stand out when the black and white effect is added. 

This shot could be used for when the Grandmother walks up the stairs. It is taken from the extra steps by the snooker room. This would be ideal because it is high angle and would show the Grandmother gradually walking up the stairs. However it wouldn't be ideal as you can see the club-room below and it shows that its a club rather than a house which is lived in. 

This shot would be prefect to use as it shows the stairs from a high angle shot and doesn't show the snooker room door or the club-room below. It also shows further up the stairs so the Grandmother could be seen going up the stairs fully.

This is the landing at the top of the stairs, the doors on the right lead to the restaurant that would be used as Roseanne's office. This would be a good area to film however it doesn't look very tidy and there is too much red in the shot.





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This is a long shot of the room being used as a restaurant by the club. We would most likely use this area to set up the office scene. We could move all the tables out of the way and set up an office scene by the window to use the natural light. The room is very big and so it will be easy to move the dolly around.

We would move some tables and all the chairs out of the way and keep two tables by the window to be the desk. I natural light coming from the window shines on the desk and creates a nice glow so lighting is not likely to be a problem. The curtains can be drawn to create shadows and to make the shot darker if we needed to. The tables would be set up to look like an office desk with a laptop/computer on there and general office type things.

This candle and rose could be part of the desk as the candle would provide a smoke effect as it burns and would fit in with the Noir theme, and the rose would link back to the protagonists name: Roseanne. We could emphasize the redness of the whole building and its items by using them in our shots and although the film is in black and white we could focus on the red during editing and make it significant in the shot ( to show violence and vengeance for example) .

This chair could be used by Roseanne and can be the chair she uses at the desk.It looks old fashioned and links back to the setting of the manor as a house. It could be decorated with pillows and Roseanne's coat would be on the back of it so when she goes to leave it would be easy to access.




From our Recce, we can conclude that Bolehall Manor is the best location to film. It has many elements that we can focus on e.g- the red, and is large enough for all the filming equipment (camera, tripod and dolly) to be used. It looks (and is) a manor house and if perfect to use for the house in our movie opening. There are many locations inside the manor that we can use and we are not very restricted in the places we can film. Overall this is the perfect location.