11. Location

For my music video I wanted to have a range of different locations. This would allow me to have as much footage as I possible could. As my song has a quick pace I want to be able to edit quickly with the beat. I have chosen to do this as I think it will make my video look professional as my research showed me that music videeos cut on the beat. And the most successful music videos have three or more locations. I have chosen to have three locations, a dark room, a conservatory and walking on the street. These locations are very different and will help keep the audience interested in the music video.

Street:

The first location is on the street, this will help tell the audience the narrative of the music video. I want to give the idea that the artist is sad and lonely as this will help the audience understand the message behind the song. This location will make the artist seem down to earth as he will be walking the streets like every other perosn. We will also see performance shots on the street. This will allow me to have a lot of footage of the artist lip-syncing so that the audience can see the talent that he has. It will help make the video successful as it will seem to the audience that it is professional.  

Dark Room:

The second location is in a dark room, in this location we will see mainly performance shots of the artist singing and playing his instruments. The dark from will tell the audience that the artist is lonely feels sad. This will give the idea of love loss to the audience. I will also use this as another location but I will change the set of the room. I will use the second set to get more narrative and concept shots in. I will use it to show the artist making the origami birds and the dark setting with help set the mood and get the message across. It will also give me more footage to use when editing.

Conservatory:

This is the final location I will use, in this location the audience will see a mixture of performance and narrative shots. The audience will see him lip-syncing and playing his instruments, and we will see him looking out of his window which will give the message of the song across. I will also use the location to show some of the origami birds, in this location the birds will blow away through the conservatory doors.

As I started to film and started to edit the footage I started to see that the locations were not quite working so I came up with some new locations which you can see below. 

Here is my first location, Brick Lane. I thought about this as it is very narrow and the roads get very busy which will look good in the video as the artist walks past them. This location also has side roads which are not as busy which means we can get two different types of shots with this one location.