For our warehouse shot of the rebel headquarters, we set up a desk and spent a long time working on the mise-en-scene. We included chess pieces, among our props, to allude to the symbolic use of them in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Bladerunner, two of the films that greatly influenced us. They have connotations of war being about strategy and almost like a game in that both sides are playing the other. The laptop was used to link in modern technology, as our film is set in the near future, and a convention of sci-fi is that there is future technology involved. The maps and documents suggest the idea of manoeuvres in war and again, links to the idea of strategy being involved. We also included several pencils and pens, as well as open files and screwed up paper to show that the desk has been worked at and make it look more realistic.
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