Deconstruction of location

Deconstruction of locations 

• In our genre, a main location that we need is a cooperate building/City office in order to conform to genre. 
• With films such as The Wolf of Wall Street and The Big Short, they are centred around cooperate business and therefore big buildings and city offices follow suit with those conventions.
• In the film The Big Short this is a scene from the trailer that presents the main group of characters conferring in a very cooperate office room that we can suggest is in a big city building due to the narrative and genre of the film. 
• When deciding what we need to consider whether we want or even need a big conference room like in this film.

• Compared to The Wolf of Wall Street, the office scene in that trailer is far different from the one in The Big Short.
• First of, the office in The Wolf of Wall Street is far bigger than that of The Big Short and contains hundreds more people.
• Secondly, the mise-en-scene plays a big part in separating the films as The Big Short's office has a very calm,cool colour scheme portraying it as being more cooperate and sophisticated than The Wolf of Wall Street.
• The Wolf of Wall Street location mise-en-scene is far less up market and sophisticated and conveys a rather plain cheap office that is just ram packed full of brokers. 

• Consequently, in terms of office and building shots, we will have to decide whether we want it to follow in the foot steps of The Big Short or The Wolf of Wall Street.
• Having contrasted them both I believe it would be best and most effective to found a location like that of The Big Short as the set up and mise-en-scene conforms to our narrative better than The Wolf of Wall Street does.

Additionally,we need to have some establishing location shots and iconic shots to conform with the conventions of genre.

• In The Big Short we see shots a protagonist walk through a cosmopolitan city scene on the phone.

• As we can see from this photo, the location is indefinitely situated in an American city, most likely New York, due to the type of traffic lights, the yellow taxi and the windows of the flats that are not found any where else. 
• Therefore, due to the iconic items of this location combined with the mid-shot of the protagonist walking pace-fully down the location indicates to us that we need to have shots that contain iconic iconography and the city that we choose to do our filming, which will be London. 

• Comparatively, in The Wolf of Wall Street we see similar location placement as in The Big Short.
• There are shots of the location of Wall Street through the iconographic Bull of wall Street and the street sign of Wall Street.
• This immediately through the use of location and the mise-en-scene of the location establishes where the film is set and the genre/narrative of the film.
• However, shots of the main character who him to be on a yacht with the back drop off a massive skyscraper. We would not be able to re create a shot similar to that and even if we wanted to, it would be irrelevant as it would not fully conform to the genre and narrative of our film.

Conclusion

• We need to included iconic city shots of London to establish location and suggest some insight about the narrative
• If we decide to use an office or the inside of an office building it should have the same cooperate formality as in The Big Short for the environment we want to represent.
• Moreover, someone in the group will need to find or contact someone about using their offices in London which will give us a large and very important big of filming.
• Additionally, we need to go to London and film iconic features of London such as Red Buses, The Gurkern, The London eye etc.