Location Report

For our music video, we came up with a host of different locations that we could impliment into our video. Ultimately, we agreed on three different locations. The college allowed us to take the camera out of college for a fixed amount of time which we will use appropriately and so that we can find the location that best compliments the genre and the music itself. As "Goodwin's Theory" suggests, there has to be some sort of relationship between the music and the visuals - therefore we could not base a song that centred around dancing and the attention of a particular girl - in a classroom, for example. We had to find locations that were both appropriate and - more importantly - reachable. We did, however, find locations that were both suitable and reachable yet they all had an element of risk in them...

THE DRAMA STUDIO

PROS - The drama studio was an ideal location for the dancing aspect of our video. The studio has all sorts of features such as props, different lightening and the space we need to film our music video. The lightening can be adjusted for our needs and we can even have different coloured "spotlights" on each of our performers - this would be perfect for the genre and would greatly convey the type of music.

CONS - Unfortuantely, the drama studio is very busy - therefore finding a suitable time to rehearse is extremely difficult. We actually can only use the studio twice before our last shooting day - so to use this space is very time-consuming.

THE CAR PARK

                                                     

PROS - Our second location is a carpark. As two of our members own  a car - we would be able to use the lightening in a carpark to enhance our video and add ambiguity into our final piece. We have researched a number of different artists in this genre, and a surprising number of artists have used a carpark as their centre location - such as Wretch 32's "Trakor" video. 

CONS - Again, there are restrictions in using this space. For one, we would 

have to pay to gain entry into a carpark - and depending how long we're in there for - the price could go up. Another problem is filming the piece. It is very likely that cars would be present and therefore getting in the way of our filming - we are very restricted as far as time is concerned as it  is - we cannot afford to lose more time from not being able to get a decent shot because of a moving vehicle interfering.

THE STAIRWAY

PROS - The stairway is a location I found whilst exploring the carpark near Long Road Sixth Form College. The stairway would be perfect for getting a shot of our female character walking past one of our performers and almost "looking down" on him presented as an arial shot. The shot would be very easy to conduct and appropriate for our music video.

CONS - There is, however, that same factor of the "Carpark" location as people could well interfere by walking past when we're trying to shoot. This would be something that would be easy to overcome, however.

 THE STREET

PROS - We aim here to add even more ambiguity into our film with a more diverse location from our first two. In this location, we would focus on our subliminal message of love with our female performer walking past one of our male characters. We would aim to actually include a car in this scene, as some of the lyrics centre upon a car. We would use the car as a symbolic gesture of money -  it'll be used to bribe our female performer yet we aim to challenge the conventional view that money comes hand in hand with females - with our female walking away from the money...

CONS - Moreso than our other locations, the public would be a big problem. Especially if we're filming in a busy street - people may get in the way of our filming. This may, however, be a blessing in disguise as we aim to make the video high in validity so we want people walking by doing their day-to-day activities.




These three locations will be present in our video, yet we may choose to include one or two more depending on the time we have to film. We do believe, though, we have plenty of locations that compliment the genre and convey the message we're hoping to illustrate.