Location 2: The Abandoned Theatre

For our second location we managed to strike gold and come across 'The African Centre' located just a five minute walk from college, unknown to most poeple, this location perfectly fit our criteria as it was dark, distopian and ruined. Inside the building is the ruins of a 1930s theatre, once used by the BBC this place is know abandoned except for a few locals who are tring to restore it.

We asked for permission to film inside and the people were more than happy as it acts as a way of self promotion to the theatre. The ruins of its stage are clear in the video, and acts to the theme of the dream-like distopia, it also works well as the is natural light coming through from the back of the stage where part of the roof is missing, this helps the camera quality as the picture becomes higher resoluted.

We returned to this location many times to get different types of shots and angles. The variety of locations inside the theatre was truely incredible, from costraphobic pitch black staircases to a wide open bright stage and ripped up seats.

If we had had more equipment and better quality camera we could of filmed the entire piece in there and had so many different location, the cameras lack of quality and light exposure meant that we could and so we varied to other locations such as the studio and the backstreets. This was also decided when we were denied re entry to the theatre for stability and renovation reasons.

Abandoned Theatre Location: Wilberforce Close, Manchester, England M15 5, Uk