Location

For our music video it was crucial to find a number of locations that we felt were appropriate for the story line and also for the mood of our characters that we are trying to set. As we began planning out our ideas for out music videos we came up with a number of ideal locations and later narrowed it down to locations that we felt would be most successful.

Our first location was at a phone booth. We chose this location as we needed to show Rafal dialing the number to call his love interest. This shows him in the phone booth, talking (singing) the lyrics down the phone once she has answered. This location was chosen with continuity in mind, although it is on a road with stores behind it, we knew it would be quiet around the time that we decided to film. This then allowed us to make sure that no cars or pedestrians would be driving or walking past while we were filming and therefore allow us to have better continuity.

The second location was a bedroom. This gave an insight to our second character, Ellen's, private life. It showed her ignoring the phone call from Rafal and continuing to get dressed and ready for what later is shown as a dance performance. We had chosen this room in particular because we found it was mature and would say a lot about our character, also the mirrors in the room and the space allowed a lot of room for us to film and a lot more different angles to experiment with.

The third location is a stage-like room. It appears all dark and the lighting gives an incredible effect on our dancer, Ellen. The room has a balcony where we also set up a camera to show Ellen dancing from a different angle, along with where I did the lighting. Where the lighting board was placed allowed me to see from looking down what worked best for our ideal lighting and mood.The choice of this location was decided over many reasons, such as the ideal lighting, the black curtains that were surrounding the stage area, the balcony that would allow us to have more camera angles and also the large amount of space around the performance area that allowed Ellen room to dance and for Rafal to film from different places in the room.

The drama studio also had a staircase which was used in the filming of our music video. This is shown as Rafal reaches Ellen's performance location after travelling to find her, and he runs down the stairs before opening the curtain to find an empty room.

The final location used in our production was a train station, we had chosen this location as we found it was quiet in comparison to the station in our town. This would allow us to film without interruption from other passengers. This is where Rafal is seen singing through the windows of passing trains, and also where he gets on the train in which you see in the video.