Location scouting

I identified four locations for possible filming which relate to four scenes I have planned for my teaser trailer:

1) Classroom for interview scene with teacher or pupil

2) Street corner for interview with former pupil who has been excluded

3) Exam hall

4) School corridor for second interview scene, with disruption to occur in the background.

5. Backup corridor if the corridor above is too filled up to film.

6. This is the playground that I decided to film when we show the teacher interactions with the students more. Originally, I wanted to do have the teacher interact with the class but due to people not being available, and rooms being taken, we could not proceed with this plan. So I decided to take some students from the younger years to act in the playground, and interact with the teacher in my film.

Finding locations for filming was fairly straightforward because my teaser trailer is going to be set in school, and this is where I did the scouting.

However, there are several issues with locations that I had to consider.  Filming will need to be done during lesson time so I am not disrupted by moving students, but the noise from filming may distract teachers. It will be difficult to recruit enough schoolchildren for the exam scene who wear uniform, so I will need to use actors wearing casual clothes.  This may make the scene appear less authentic.  I will have to plan the scene very carefully to limit the amount of filming time, as there will be at least six actors involved.With the outside scene, it may be difficult to hear the person being interviewed because of background noise from the street.