Planning and Research - Locations

For my music video, I looked about different locations as what would be the best place to film and decided to take pictures of areas where I'd think about filming. A trend has been followed as I've picked places where it's mostly wildlife and a natural place over a place with buildings and the like - this is to avoid running into people otherwise we won't be able to finish quick enough. I also planned for a natural place so to make it easier for when it comes to editing the footage.

Looking at place one - this seems to be a very suitable place to do the music video because of there being not unnatural areas about and it's a place people don't pass by too much so it'll be easier to film there without hindrances and distractions.

This also has a large area to film and isn't exactly strict when it comes to space as it'll be easier to edit any of the footage afterwards with special effects if I want to.

I prefer this area compared to the other places due to its appearance and others already listed.

Area 2 is one that appears nice but is an area where many people pass by and it would be annoying if everyone passed by so much as well as would be distracting.

This place would've been nice but the fact that people pass by here a lot has put me off of using this place and isn't as ideal as I would've thought, especially when there's quite a bit of noise about this place which would make it a lot harder for us to concentrate.

This area also gets very dark when there isn't a lot of light shining in its direction.

Area three was in the fields and we thought this area would be a good place to record due to how spacious it is and the fact that it's in a natural area.

The downside to this place is that it's near a couple of main roads so there would be a lot of loud noise as well as there are often people walking about on here and the tractors that often roam about the place. This area can be seen as quite busy and would be quite difficult to record in, there's also a lack of trees and as noted in the storyboard - I've drawn in trees as the ideal backdrop.

The fourth and final place we looked at is a good area in terms of it being surrounded by trees which is liked what I wanted in my storyboard but there's always some sort of glare from the sun when I use the camera in this area as well as there being a gate which wouldn't be very appealing for the background.

This place is quite overly noisy and would put people off, despite us putting sound over the top - it would distract the actor from the current task at hand.

The glare would definitely affect any footage we'd take in this place and that's not what we want.

Taking in mind all of the locations, I think we're going to film in the first place due to the benefits of that area and how not many people would pass by and the space that will come with it, as well as there being the perfect amount of lighting that will be there compared to the other places we looked at.