RESEARCH: Potential Locations

After talking to Callum (my group partner) we decided that our video should me made up of a stream of concepts instead of trying to follow a narrative. Therefore, we set out and took some photos of some locations and setup some props so that we could come up with advantageous concepts to match our locations.

The Drama Studio

Here we can see that we have a room with a very dark backdrop. This means it could be used for a particularly arty look, where the imagery isn't particularly urban or realistic.

We may be able to use the whiteboard to our advantage and use that as a backdrop to draw around.

This is a concept that Callum came up with where you could have many people at once looking in on the one character. Whilst chatting with him about this we thought we could develop the idea - having maybe lots of old people looking in a young baby in the cage or vice versa. Hence, giving the imaginary a more philosophical meaning.

Here is a similar image of the concept from a different angle.











Out & Around School Areas

Here is a park bench. This area has nice symmetry - particularly if we moved the bin - and could give us a nice "rule-of-thirds" shot.

Again through chatting and brainstorming we decided this could have family doing various things around it - such as eating together.

This image is similar as the door falls center of frame. Callum had the idea of having the singer standing in the doorway and singing directly to the camera. I'm unsure about this as I don't want the video to be (like I found in the REM video here) led mostly by the singer and would rather have it be about the band as a whole.






Medical Room

Here we thought would be a good location to consider, as we could come up with some meaningful imagery.

The medical room itself is quite dirty and unclean (see the dust on the tiles). This could work in our favor as we try to create a gritty atmosphere .

The room is also quite small which, although limits the different range of angles we can use, can create a claustrophobic feel to all of the shots.

The room also had some shutters (see image below too) & obviously a professional medical bed - which we may be able to use in our favor.

Here the mirror could be used to create unique and interesting shots.

Music Rehearsal Rooms

Here is one of our music rooms. Like the medical room, its quite small, however this could potentially be a positive thing.

This room also has quite a dirty and gritty vibe (note the spillages down the carpeted walls) conveying our punk genre.

One thing I dislike about this room is the "music lesson" posters on the walls. If we could take these down and maybe put some other band posters up (creating inter-textual references) then it would be even more ideal to had the band contrive a performance in.

The kit within in the room is also convenient as it connotes the genre and is an obvious convention of a performance.

The only way this could be better is if brands synonymous with rock flashed their logos up i.e. Marshall Amps.

The messiness of the equipment give off the 'diy' vibe. In particular the drum stool is made out of tape (just like the singers microphone in Greenday's Geek Stink Breath).

This one particular image we thought would be a good close up once we had a drummer actually sitting.