Inspiration- Cardboard City
The original Cardboard City was located near waterloo station in London, populated by an average of 200 homeless people in the mid-eighties, the site was seen as a symbol of how our society had failed
to eradicate issues surrounding homelessness as well as homelessness itself. By 1998 the majority of the residents had been evicted and moved to housing by the London borough of Lambeth, although there was speculation as to how they would respond to housed life.
Through interviews with the residents when the site was being evited it was found that some residents had been in the underground pass for up to 30
years and were reluctant to leave. The whole site was like a community, each person having friends and neighbours as well as their allotted plot.
The site is now occupied by the London IMAX theatre.
The idea that hundreds of people migrated to this one
location due to the fact that they had no here else to go is a powerful image
and I feel as though it is a real-life situation that we can incorporate into
our film opening. By naming our film opening after the famous location we can incorporate
the symbolism that it posed through the eighties and nineties, I believe that
this will lead to a subtly effective message that we will portray.
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