Location Research

The first location we have decided to film in is London, this is a very broad area to film in so we looked for places which would be seen as ' indie' to fit the genre of our song. We also don't want to film in places which would be stereotypical to film in, for example, Buckingham Palace and Big Ben.
When looking into places in London we came across Notting Hill, this place has many different pastel colour houses which we thought would look nice and be cute to film in, considering our song is a love song. This place is also very secluded which is to our advantage because we didn't want many people watching us film or to be in the video. This is a place where we can avoid the busy streets as well as it looking pretty.

Another Location we plan to film at is in Wimbledon London, on the grounds of Cannizaro House Hotel. This place is very similar to Notting Hill in the sense that it is calm and quite place to film because it is in an isolated area and not in a central busy part. This place has an easy access because it is open to the public so we wouldn't need to ask for filming privileges because we aren't filming in the actual building. As seen in the pictures below the place can look very colourful because of all of the different colour flowers and trees. This is an advantage for us because the location of Notting Hill also has bright colours in, this shows that we want to continue this throughout the video.

Another location we plan to film at is Riverside park, here we would have Ella learning how to skateboard. We thought this would be a good place to film because it has a riverbank and a scenic area which would look like someone would go on for a date or a romantic walk, especially if we can look up on the weather forecast and plan to film on a sunny day.
This location is good to go to because it's local and only a 5 minute drive therefore if we needed to go back and get some more shots it would be easy to go after school or at the weekend.

We decided that we would end our music video with a sunset, and this would be filmed at a place called Darlands which is also around the corner from us, so it again it would be easy for us to re film shots if we needed to. At Darlands there are various hills, which is a plus for us because we wanted to have Ella placed on a hill by herself to show that the love she has with her boyfriend isn't there anymore. The only problem is with this is that because it is a sunset we would need to make sure we get there before the sun begins to set so we can set up the camera equipment and be prepared to get some good shots before the sun goes down or we would need to go back another day.

One location we have decided not to film at is the beach this is because we have decided that when it comes to film there won't be many sunny days for us to go and film. We won't want to go to the beach on a gloomy day because you associate the beach with a fun and getting a tan, on a dark day it is more likely that people will stay inside so the atmosphere wouldn't be right because the place would look deserted. If we went to film at the beach at the end of October it would look the first picture instead of the second picture which is what we would want it to look like. Also, for us to go to the beach we would need to pay for the train fare up there. However, as we have decided that London will be our main location, it would be too expensive to keep paying out for the train fares as we probably won't get all the filming done in London in one day, so we will need to spread our filming time across a couple of weekends. It easier for us to use locations nearer to us to film other parts so our main focus can be in London.