Being exploratory

When scouting for our location, we selected our school's 'Richard Smith' hall.. simply for its spacious nature and the incredible floor-length curtains we could use for a back-drop -considering mise-en-scene carefully as we wanted to give the impression of a performance space of staging, not a school.

Here are some test shots we took in the filming space, to ensure we knew where the girls would be placed, but also how they'd look prior to filming in case something wasn't quite correct.

We moved the chairs and tables from the space, adding stage blocks and lighting to add to the performance 'aura', placing the girls on the stage blocks, giving them 'height' and differentiating their proxemity from the camera.