Planning; Locations

In this post I will discuss and analyse the possible locations we hope to use within our music video, I will mention each locations and and explain 4 key points about them, these points being: Action; what will take place in the location, Limitations; how does the location limit what we can do/film, weather; how can the weather effect our filming, health and safety risks; the health and safety risks we need to take in consideration of the location

key locations:
1 - House

2 - House party 'other house'

3 - Shop

4 - Streets

Houses

The first location that I would like to talk about would be the first house which would have the girlfriend of our artist in it, this is the scene where he gets kicked out of the house. The scene is important as it is the establishing for the video we will see the house and we will see that the artists loses his relationship due to lack of wealth and this would let the audience know and have an inclination towards the concept of our video, and they would want to watch it to see what happens next to our artist. this scene will then be visited at the end of the video where our artist comes back for revenge and shows her ex girlfriend that he can get money, and that it was not a problem for him. We will be using another 2 houses, as one is where the artist breaks in and steals expensive items, and then starts to get the money he is seeking after his girlfriend kicked him out. The other house is where the house party scene is going to be filmed, here the artist partys and it shows conventions of the dance genre and dance videos.

The limitations of the house would be minimal, we can have full access to the house and that means we would be free to film a wide range of camera shots. The health and safety aspect in the house would have to taken in consideration as there would be stairs involved, and cables from the cameras and lighting could become a hazard as people could trip up and fall down the stars. And obviously we would have to be careful with the belongings in the house as it could not belong to us personally, so watching our step and being careful with furniture would be crucial too. The weather would not really effect the filming in terms of rain damage but it could effect continuety editing, for example if we film in a room which is present with natural high key lighting from the sun, we dont want to carry on filming another action when it gets dark.

Streets

Throughout the music video we will be showing many shots which would be taking on pavements and streets, as the artist has been chucked out of his house and he now is living on the streets. There would be shots of our artist walking along the street to fill in gaps and link to each location as he walks to some of the at the start of the video as he does not have a car. Certain actions would be when the artist steals a car, there would be shots of where the car is parked and how the artist goes and steals the car. He would mainly be doing rebellious activities while on the streets, like stealing. Health and safety issues are quite prominent in the streets as we are filming near roads which can include cars, the safety of us are important so we must take care if we cross roads, and we must not film in the road for safety issues again. 

Limitations are quite vast too, if it rains then we might have a problem with keeping the camera dry and it could break the camera. Also there could be limitations of filming, where if the camera was placed on the other side of the road filming across the road, we might get cars wanting to turn into or parking on the pavement, and it could get in the way of the shots.

House party

In the video there will be a scene where the artist walks into a house party, here we see the artist partying which is the whole theme of dance music and its purpose, and this makes the artist connect with our audience as they would like to party too. The scene will be very conventional of the dance genre. The location would be dark and messy as it is in a house and it would be taking part at night time as party's usually do, therefore weather would not be a problem for the scene as we will be shooting at night to ensure its dark, but if we need to shoot in sunny weather then we will pull the blinds down or make editing make sure that its dark. There are no real limitations to filming in the house as we can use any room we really want. With health and safety we must ensure that the actors in the party must watch their step and mind what they are doing as it would be mainly dark in the house.

A shop

We will be using a shop in our video to start with the narrative of stealing and getting money. The shop will hold the scene were the artist walks in a steals a bottle of beer, he then runs out. He will steal most probably alcohol as this relates to the dance genre and the stereotypes of teen drinking etc. However this scene is the start of our artist's theft career, as he then goes on to do burglary as i talked about at the start of this post. There could be some major limitations to this scene as the shop might not let us film in there or even use their stock to film with, and we could block customers with our tripod. Weather would have to be the same as it could cause problems, as we wil shoot the artist going into the store so when he comes out we need the weather to be similar to the way he came in to provide continuity and match on action. Health and safety wont really be a problem as shops already go through tests of health and safety  so as long as we are carefull we will be fine.