1. Location Notes
Sharna Mandil

2. Discussion and research
• As a group we had a meeting while creating the brainstorm, and all stated ideas of
where the filming for our short film would take place.
• After brainstorming location ideas, we had two places in which we thought would
make suitable places to film:
1. A house
2. A classroom
• After picking out the pros and cons of each location, we came to the decision we
would use a house, as our director Jaspreet has a large home suitable for filming
key scenes.
• After the brainstorm session, Jaspreet and I went to her home to take a range of
photos of her house for our location notes, and to also see what rooms in the
house would be suitable for specific parts of our film.
• During our research into the genre of rom-com films, a lot of them such as ‘Dinner
Date’ took place in a kitchen and a home, which is also why we decided to use a
house as our location for filming.

3. Location Notes
Living Room Kitchen
• We decided that the living room • The kitchen was also one location
woud be an excellent location for we definitely wanted to use, as one
our opening scene, as the lighting of our main scenes happen in the
was bright which would make our kitchen when Arran is cooking for
film look neat and clean. his date. The spacing was also large
which is what we was looking for.

4. Location Notes
Hallway
• We decided the hall would make an
excellent place to film for a number
of different reasons. The lighting and
spacing was fairly
large, therefore, there’s less risk of
our actors falling over if it was
cramped. The stairs in the hallway
were also a reason we wanted to use
this location. During research and
watching many short films of the
romcom genre, many of them used
stairs in their videos as the
protagonist would fall up them, so we
decided to add this into our script
(Arran falling upstairs) to add to the
comical side of our genre.

5. Location Notes
Bathroom
• The bathroom was also a location
we found many production
companies used when filming their
short films, as crucial commical
moments happen in there (such as
the protagonists towel falling
down). The bathroom is
large, which makes it easier to film
and the window is also large which
gives is better lighting for a more
professional looking film.

6. Location Notes
Bedroom
• As the film is a teen romcom
film, we believed a typical
location for a romcom teen
film would be the protagonists
bedroom. Again, the bedroom
is large which makes it easier
to film, and the bedroom is
blue and very masculine, and
our main character is male so
it fitted the stereotype of a
typical teenage male.