Location

Today we have been researching locations for our opening scene. As we are doing a boxing film we had to look for a gym with boxing facilities. We were unable to find a proper boxing gym, due to not having permission from the owners of the building. So we had to use a sports hall in Moss Side Gym to do our training as it was the nearest to a boxing gym.

To do our boxing training we needed permission from the manager of Moss side gym.
We looked at two locations in Moss Side gym. One was a squash court which was a medium sized room with not a lot of lighting in it, the second one was a sports hall which included gymnastic and sports equipment. We chose the sports hall as this location looked more like a training gym and felt like the right location for our filming.

This room allowed us to use the lighting to emphasise the different training movements with different camera shots. For the shadow boxing we dimmed the lights to get a shadow effect which was successful and worked well. We also took advantage of the boxing brackets that were attached to the walls to do our pull ups which worked well as it shows the intensity of the workout.

We took a variety of shots of our locations, such as the squash room and the sports hall


Moss Side Leisure Centre


This was our main location for our filming of our boxing training, as this had gym facilities and sports facilities it was not hard for us to find a place for our training to establish a boxing theme.










Sports Hall


We chose this location because we tried to get permission from our local gyms with boxing facilties but unfortunately the managers did not have the rights to lease the buliding for our project. Therefore we tried our local leisure centre which was Moss Side, they allowed us to use their sports hall for our filming as Moss Side works closely with Loreto College, which helped us.







Longford Track


We chose this location because our film includes a lot of running as this is familiar with boxers. We used the track to emphasise this fact. Also we were able to get permission from the manager to use this track.

















Squash Room


This was an alternative to the Sports Hall that we used, as we felt that the Squash Room did not have a boxing feeling to it as it was plain and boring, we compared this room with the sports hall which felt that the sports hall was alot bigger, had more lighting in it which we wanted as we were able to switch off certain lights to do our shadow boxing.