Interior
We decided to have a house setting, we were going to use the stairs, the main room and the kitchen. We chose these rooms because these are generally the main rooms of a house and the best rooms to stage an argument in. Also these rooms contain a lot of things like cups, plates, lamps and all of theses things could be broken to make the argument more realistic and dramatic. Although the stairs aren't really a room in the house they are still a good place to have the climactic ending of the woman falling down the stairs at the end.
We included the kitchen as one of the rooms for the fight to happen in because it is a generic place that is used so we felt we had to include it. We think that it is generic because there are many sharp things like knives so many films use the same generic scenario of having the man attacking the woman for whatever reason and then she grabs a knife from the kitchen to defend her self. although this wont happen in our film we just wanted a few various places to have the argument.
We chose the main room because it is supposed to be a tranquil place of happiness and a place in the home were you can rest and socialize. So we decided to upset this balance by having an argument happen in this room and the place being destroyed.
Like I said before although this is not an actual room the main part of the film will happen here, the dramatic ending.
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This part of the house will be used for the shot at the end where the woman either trips or is pushed down the stairs.
Exterior
We only have one exterior scene and that only consists of a crane shot starting from the top of the outer part of the house and leading down to the window in the kitchen. This will be a simple establishing shot so it will only last a few seconds. Here is a picture of the exterior of the house:
Set pieces
A photo frame will be needed for Richard to smash and tear the photo out of it and rip it in half.
These glasses will be set out for the romantic meal that Alice had prepared and the one Richard was late for.
The wine bottle will be there to add effect to the romantic meal the actors wont actually be drinking it and the brand in the picture wont necessarily be the brand that we buy its just an example. We chose red wine because it ties in well with Christianity.
We had the idea of having either the meal already set out or just having the plates in the places where they were going to be sat. We prefer the second option because then we wouldn't have to try and set out the food the same each time we came to filming were the dinner table is in shot.
We hade the thought of the clock because then Alice can be sat there monitoring the time and growing more impatient. We chose a digital clock because it is easier to show time passing.
We had the cutlery for the obvious reason of that we don't want to think that our characters eat with their hands and especially at a romantic meal.
We chose the candle because its a romantic meal and they are normally light by candles but we were also going to have them melted so as to show how long Alice has been sitting there waiting for Richard.
We also later on thought about using a Christian's Advent Wreath, this has four red candles and one white in the centre, We felt that if we had two red and one white candle then it would still link to Christianity but not too strongly to over come the romantic meal.
The flowers in the middle of the table....... come on it is a romantic meal so they are needed.
