1) The first location we will be using will be Southend Beach, this location will be used during the introduction of the music video, and will run throughout the flashback and the final scenes. The relevance to the beach was that it would be a good sunset location to film the break-up, by using it through a happy flashback scene it adds further relevance as it was the spot of happier times. As well as leaving it till the very ending scene which again will connote the ending of the relationship and how the character will always be left alone.
In terms of practicality it is a public area so no permission is needed for filming, it is a case of finding a quite segment of the beach and one with a good clear background.
2) The next location we will use in Southend will be the town, this will only be used for a couple of scenes and will feature during a flashback. The relevance was just to portray a happy memory of the 2 characters in their relationship.
Filming this scene in Southend town was more for logistical reasons, we would be able to film during the day and still stay within a reasonable proximity as we needed various other settings within the same location.
Once again it was a public place which meant no permission was needed, the only problems that could potentially occur is the weather and the amount of people in the town.
3) Southend Pier would be the final location within Southend, this again would be used as another happy memory for a flashback scene. We felt we could still film a good scene in this location whilst still staying within Southend.
In this sense making the decision to film on the Pier was more about logistics and that it was easier to use the whole of Southend as opposed to limiting ourselves to just one locations.
4) We had numerous locations around London, one of which being southbank. We are actually planning on filming 2 separate locations within Southbank, the first being a bench next to the Themes (as seen in the picture.) This was at the start of the first verse, and it was really to start the journey that the artist will go through over the whole night. The next location within Southbank was a bridge (in the picture.) The relevance to this location, was because it was only a needed to shoot a handful of shots and really adds this effect of the character looking out into her city and trying to see past her own little world that she has wrapped her self in.
5) London, Piccadilly circus was the next location for our second verse, we illustrate only a couple of shots, the relevance of this location, was the fact that it is a very busy location. With some editing we would be able to continue this sense of the character being all alone in the world, even thought there are many people around her she is immersed in her own failed relationship.
in retrospect the group feels that the location is a good idea, because our scene we plan to film there does carry much relevance to the story, and we didn't particularly feel that the audience will think its just a filler shot. We hope that the audience will understand what we tried to achieve by using this location.
6) london, Green park, (looking at the picture), we felt that this was a perfect spot to add in our performance element to our music video, it was a location that we instantly knew we can add a lot of camera movement too, and really make perhaps one of the most disinterested aspects more enjoyable.
We feel that some of our shots, using this location will be a bold move, as a park doesnt really fit in with any other locations, but we felt that it was very close to our others and it was a smart move in terms of practicality.
7) We then decided to also use Trafalgar Square, this was the plan to use for the final verse, as we really wanted to illustrate the characters raw emotions and pain to the audience, and we felt it was still an iconic location, but we could really film her to be in great distress.
Technically we felt that this location was a good idea, whilst being able to reveal where she was, and film such intense scenes, the location really enables us to do many different things, with this final verse.
8) Another location in London we decided to use was Buckingham palace, through the second verse, we decided to use this location to add our first peace of performance in to the video.
Whilst we wanted the scene in this location to just feature the artist and no one else, we do understand that this location is very busy. So on the technicality side of things, this location will really test our camera language and our knowledge of how we can use certain angles to get the right shot an eliminate the public.
9) Bens house, this location would be used, for the flashback scenes, its primary function was to stage the fight scenes that happen between the 2 characters to show the struggles that they continuously had and the strain of the relationship.
The house, isn't particularly far from any of the cast or crew so it was a good location to film and there won't be any problems filming. Whilst it may be the most simplest location of all, it is needed as it just adds continuity to the whole video, which i stop illustrate the fight scenes to the audience to show that there was some really hard, frustrating times for both characters.
10) St Pauls Cathedral, this location in london, was to be used to add another performance element to our music video, we felt that we had a lot of narrative in our original idea. As a group we came to the decision that we should be adding in more locations and more performance. We felt that this location (in the picture) on the stairs as the artists cries and shows her raw emotions, we can still edit and cut to certain shots where she can also be performing some of the verse.
In terms of practicality it is not that far away from the Southbank locations we will be using, so in terms of logistics we won't have to constantly travel by train to go to locations that are very far apart. instead all of ours are close together which makes it much easier to film.
