Planning: Choosing a Location

When looking into location i decided that I wanted many different places involved in the video, to create a story.  I would like to have many different scenes, in different places however these places will have linked relevance and hold different representational factors for the video.  The chosen narrative I have gone for means that all locations used will show different aspects and angles of a couples life.
Idea 1 - Several locations

• My first idea for locations include many wide angles on the couples life.  This will include parties to show the famous, social side of their lives, along with red carpet events and shots showing that they have traveled; Italy & London are both places I will be able to get shots at.  This idea would also involve shots of the couple in bed together, walking down dark streets without harassment from the public and many dark areas; drug dens, attics etc.  This will show both sides to the couples lives; the one they show the public and the one they don't. 
• My target audience is between the ages of 18 and late 20s/30.  When thinking of my location I thought that this age group will have many famous couples or individuals which they admire and see in many of these locations.  Therefore by providing an alternative narrative to what is really going on in this celebrities life and having these locations to represent it, should be interesting to the audience.  Also some of the locations the couple will be shot in will be places that the audience can relate to, e.g. in bed, down streets. 

• The main locations I would use to film all of these would be in Banbury and in Middleton Cheney.  I live in Middleton and a lot of these shots could be set at my house to look as though they are in different locations.  For example, I have an attic which I could use as a dark area to film.  Also, the red a carpet shots could be done in my garden.  When it comes to looking at shots in the streets, this would have to be done in Banbury to capture more of a town life.

•  By using these locations to create the many locations I wish to include, it will not only be cheaper to fund as it is all very local, but also would reduce how much time it would take to use transport.  There are many places in Banbury where paparazzi shots and party shots could be taken, as well as Middleton Cheney.  The two areas are not very glamorous, which would follow the raw conventions of an indie music video. 

•  I would also use the school drama studio to carry out some of the shots, as it is a dark area where many of the dark drug shots could be carries out. 
• Below I have created a moodboard to show different images of locations I plan to use for this idea.  All of these images show the two sides of the couples life. 

All of these images were ones I found on google.  Apart from the one in the top left which is a screen shot from the Skins episode of Effy and Freddie.

Idea 2
London - Urban

• My second idea for location was in London. This idea came from how iconic London i.  This is something I could use for representation to how iconic the couple is.  It is also a location which my target audience would have probably been to and therefore they could relate to it.
• When filming in London there are many locations which I would like to use. 
•  One location being inside of a town house.  I have family in London so this would be accessible.  I would use the house to show the private life of the couple; the life behind doors. As shown in the photography below, the houses are very beautiful.  
  
• One aspect of the town house which I would use very well is the balcony.  The beautiful metal balcony, looking out onto the road is something I would use to show the female.  Her looking out onto the road or looking up at the balcony.  It something I would use in a shot to capture her beauty and innocence. 
• Other locations which I would use in London is the underground.  The underground is a very iconic part of London and therefore it could be used to show location. 
• I would also use the streets of London to show the couple holding hands and walking together, just to capture the generic couple activities.  
  
• There are many theaters in London which not only look beautiful from the outside, but inside as well.  This is somewhere I could film inside and outside (with permission), to show the fame of the couple and make it look like an event.   
• This location is one which would probably cost a lot of money to carry out, however would work very well. 

Idea 3
Fields and woods - rural (quiet location)

• My last idea for location for my video is using fields and woodland areas.  This would have to have a contrast with the red carpet events in that the fields could be used to represent their playful love, making the beginning of the video look very loved up and normal,whereas the rep carpet events would need to show the fame in their relationship. 
  
•  The fields would represent the innocence of the love to begin with.  This would show lovely sunny, flower filled fields at the beginning and cold dark fields at the end.  Both would have the couple in the location, representing their love (and life) fading/dying.  
•  This idea of a rural environment could also include woods.  The woods could represent the dark areas of the relationship as well as the light; similar to the field.  

• It could show the couple playing in the woods, messing around at the beginning.  Then this could turn into dark meetings in the end of the video. This is again a representation of  the love fading/dying and the drugs taking over. 
• Both of this rural areas play on the idea of representing freedom.  This is something which the female looses throughout the video and therefore the use of these locations are powerful in representing that . 

All of these ideas of locations strongly follow the conventions of a typical Indie music video.  They all use different approaches to fit into the genre.  Something which I took into consideration with all of these ideas is representation.  Each location choice represents different aspects of the narrative.