St. Paul’s Catholic College

Unit G324: Advanced Portfolio in Media

Locations

1. Shots from The Grizzly Bear Sunbury on Thames Green Street:

The grizzly bear is our prime pub location; we chose this as our main setting for the story because it’s a corner pub, which ties in with the soap name. The Grizzly bear is also situated next to a long road, which will be good for filming Brenda’s dramatic approach to the pub before the shooting. We chose to use a pub for the main scenes because they are considered a social place and most people enjoy a “drink or two” there and so it means Brenda’s actions will be clearly defined in our soap operas community. The pub also has a back entranced which can be used for our final scenes as Liam walks in to see what Brenda has done which is useful for our filming.

Conventionally, pubs are a typical location in British Soap Operas such as Eastenders or Coronation Street. It is the place in which the characters celebrate significant events, for example weddings, the birth of a child and birthdays and also socialize on less eventful days.

This is a side view of the pub, which displays its logo

This is a front view of the pub showing its main entrance

This shows the main road next to the pub, which will be used for filming Brenda’s arrival

This is the back entrance of the pub, which will be used to film Liam’s entrance as Brenda shoots the gun

2. Shots from The Hare & Hound Sunbury on Thames Vicarage Road:

The Hare & Hound is another popular pub in Sunbury. It is a possible option for filming inside and out for our trailer. Once again it is also on a corner, which helps to reiterate the soaps name. It has a spacious inside, which will make filming easier, and it also has a beer garden, which may be good if we wish to do some outside filming. Similarly to the Grizzly bear it has a back entrance, which is need for a few of our final scenes. It also has a grand entrance, which makes filming the entering scene a viable option here.

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Shots from The Three Horseshoes Feltham High Street:

The Three Horseshoes is another viable pub for filming. It has a large open space inside making filming a possibility, however we are unsure if it has a back entrance, which is needed. It has a large entrance door, which can be useful for the establishing shot as Brenda enters the pub.

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Shots from Sunbury Cross:

This is the front entrance of the Hare & Hound, which is very grand making it attractive for our filming as Brenda enters

This is the beer garden of the Hare & Hound, which is useful if we need to film outside of the pub

This is the side view of the pub next to its main road, another good location we can film for Brenda’s approach

This image shows an outside view of the pub an explains its large space in and out

This image shows the large car park which could be useful for filming Brenda’s approach with the use of cars or vehicles

This shows the pubs grand entrance, which will provide a dramatic effect as we film Brenda’s entrance

Sunbury Cross is a busy local area to our school, which has many destinations, which we could use for filming. Its sub-urban look and feel relates well to our trailer and the working class “kitchen sink” we are trying to show in the trailer.

5. Shots from Local Sunbury Roads:

The local area around Sunbury has diversity from more modern and expensive housing to more gritty and urban housing providing a good contrast and a small class divide which would be good to show in our trailer as we are trying to focus on more working class “kitchen sink” feel so that viewers can relate to our trailer. The photos below show this contrast and also potential filming locations.

This image sows the subway at Sunbury cross its graffiti covered walls provide a gritty and working class look which could be used in our filming to emphasis the working class attitude we are trying to portray

This image shows the sign of Sunbury cross shopping Centre, which is a busy area in Sunbury. Its sub-urban atmosphere would work well for Brenda’s long approach to the pub

This image shows the sign of some of the more specific graffiti in the subway which shows the 235 a local bus. This gives viewers a way to relate to the trailer as it is portrayed in their local area.

This road of more modern houses can be used as a filming location on Brenda’s journey to the pub and could be used as a focus to sow class divide and the contrast between different areas of Sunbury

This road of older buildings from a more gritty part of Sunbury is useful to show the contrast in parts of Sunbury and if used correctly in the trailer can portray the differences in how people are from the two areas and what kind of life they lead

This alley way is hard to show is another potential location for filming Liam as he runs to Brenda to stop her before it is too late