The Ridings Location

Liam Quinn, Terna Jogo and Syan Magahy

St. Paul’s Catholic CollegeUnit G324: Advanced Portfolio in Media

The Ridings – Locations

Shots From Admiral Hawk Pub

Shots From

Sunbury Park

This pub has been used to familiarise the audience with the setting as it is an act of ‘Personally identity’ (Katz). This may be seen as repeating (Steve Neale) conventions from current soap operas such as Eastenders. The Admiral Hawke (pub in picture) has been represented in this trailer to signify (De Saussure) that it may be the meeting point for most of the characters for when they want to celebrate an occasion. In the scene there should be a happy couple enjoying themselves, but this will soon become ironic as the date turns out to be a trap for the male character. This represents the female gender to be more dominant (Rebecca Feasey) as she has lured the antagonist

We used the pub in our trailer to present a working class (Maslow’s Social Climbers) society, which gives the trailer the soap opera feeling. For example we looked at several Eastenders trailers and noticed that the pub is always presented which gave us the idea. Not only does it present a working class society but also creates verisimilitude of how we use the pub to film a date which is also a mixture of Male and Female Gaze (Laura Mulvey)


Shots From Sunbury Graveyard

We used the Sunbury Graveyard as a location in our trailer; this was an essential part of the story as it initiates a cliff-hanger. The graveyard creates suspense towards the trailer, as we see our two female protagonists dragging the villain (Propp) Nathan, towards the Graveyard. We used the Sunbury Graveyard as a location in our trailer; this was an essential part of the story as it initiates a cliff-hanger (Abercrombie 1995). The graveyard creates suspense towards the trailer, as we see our two female antagonists dragging the cheating dirt bag Nathan, towards the Graveyard.

The camera shot will be still whilst they walk towards us, instead of recording each step they take, we will time lapse the movement as they come closer and closer. The relationship between these two may have a correlation with the audience as there may be personal identification (Katz) with the situation of each character.


Shots From Forge Lane

Here my group and I have thought carefully about the surroundings of the scene, which relates to mise en scene. This is a utopian setting that’s ironic due to the dystopia as Nathan is being dragged to his fate.

These shots of Forge Lane were important in our trailer as it gave the audience a sense of location that the trailer is set in. These shots will be briefly shown near the end of the trailer as a flashback for the 3 stars. The shots that we will take may present people from the community walking around in the background. This road is near the pub that we also used in the trailer, which connotes a working class environment. This road was used for several scenes as well as being close to the graveyard. The characters of our trailer were presented down this road as they argue at each other.


Shots From Dark Room in St Paul’s

Our School’s dark room has been used in our trailer just before the end of the trailer where we will have our main actor in a dark space to give the audience the illusion that he is in a box. The dark room scene comes directly after our graveyard shooting which should give the audience the idea that we have buried Nathan (or Taylor). The dark room will present the cliff-hanger, as our star, Nathan, will suddenly and instantly open his eyes as we have a close up shot of his face.

The audience may feel a little sympathetic (Maslow’s) for Nathan as he is violated by the other two protagonists (Courtney and Chelsea). But other may feel as if he has been punished correctly for his prior actions.

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The Ridings Location