Location Scouting Footage*

The group decided to start filming for the music video on 30th November. 
Before we began filming, we all discussed possible locations on where our music video scenes will be based. We started by looking around the school and decided to film on the school stage the band shots (to reflect a band performing at a concert), however after feedback from Mr Palmer we decided not to film on the school premises; it would not be a suitable location for ur music video. Following this constructive criticism, we decided to change location suiting the theme of our music video and genre more appropriately - to convey the mise-en-scene more effectively.
So, our locations will be:

• An Estate
• Woods/Heath

Narrative Location

Today, Kike and myself went to one of the possible locations, Bostall Heath, with Katharine and filmed the setting; this enabled us to visualise some of the narrative scenes in our music video. We took recordings of the heath (Kike is the audio, however it is very hard to hear her with the wind being so strong and loud :/ ):

This is our quirky actress, Katharine, who plays one of our main characters in our music video.  One of our possible locations is the heath, and this scene will involve the significant “kissing” scene that sends our main character not “feeling good”.  We have chosen this as a strong possible location for this scene, because there is the contrast of the open space of the heath as well as the hidden and secreted shroud of trees.  They symbolise the secret of Katharine’s character cheating on our Charlie which makes it all the more enticing.

Despite the horrific quick zoom, a possible main tree that will be featured is this one.  We scanned the whole of the heath’s trees and made a choice to consider this one; the shape is distinct as well as the background behind it being open giving our other characters space to perform. 

Band Location

To really portray our chosen themes of sadness, depression and heartbreak, we decided to choose an estate to really visualise this chaos and mass of emotion (to relate to teen angst) and so found this old desolate bulding filled with this clutter and "destruction" - it belonged to a friend's dad, so with permission, we were allowed to film this as the set of our main location.  We found the mise-en-scene for our music video would be conveyed well in this location, for not only does it look unconventional, but an "abandoned house" is a perfect location for our urban based target audience. 

Band Location - with Charlie

  

Zoomed shot of the back of the building

Just clutter and mess!!