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Location Recce

 For the outdoor locations (park and subrubs) we decided to film in my colony in one of the parks that were relatively larger and the rest in nearby streets. The park was walking distance from my home so conveyance wasn't an issue. 

Park:

Suburban streets:

For the indoor shots, we needed a bedroom, a dining room or lounge for the party scenes, a window where our actress will be sitting and a kitchen.

Since we were gathering at my place for the outdoor scenes, we decided to use my room as the filming location, as well my dining room, except we would have to rearrange some furniture. For the window, since we'd be filming it from the outside we decided to use the one in my brother's room which opens to the terrace. However, my kitchen didn't go with our video's theme overall because the structure of it meant that there would be a lot of things in the background that could be distracting, and also my kitche is grey and black so the palette was completely off as well. Tehreem's kitchen was more suited to our purpose and palette both, so that was our final filming location. Tehreem lives about 15 minutes away from me, and 20 for Hira but that much was manageable since we couldn't find an alternative location.


Tehreem's kitchen:

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