Setting of the Film Opening

The setting of our film opening is very important as it will help to establish the storyline of the piece. It should ideally aid us as filmmakers in helping to tell our story to our demographic, that of a teenage and young adult audience by bringing realistic locations into our filming; it makes our film opening appear more authentic for the audience.  During our film opening, there is a mix –or hybrid- of both urban and rural locations, the urban location will be shown within the opening of our film during the botched drug deal opening scene. During the opening of our film, we want to present the location of the botched drug deal as harsh, hard hitting, gritty and a little bit grim to represent the wide negative conception of areas inhabited by drug issues, as this reflects the quality of life and the living standards commonly stereotyped within areas inhabited by drug issues.  
We wish to explore the woodland area of our film opening through the use of wide expansive shots to display the openness of the natural world and to show that the two characters are no longer consteained by the limits of the city during the chase scene.

 By showing both locations and environments in our film opening not only will this contrast differing ‘feelings’ to our film opening, it allows us to experiment with differing backdrops/ setting to the action. The reason for the contrasting environments being shown in our film opening is to contrast different social backgrounds commonly confronted and experienced in life.