This location will be used to show the actions of the sad girl at the beginning of her day, i.e. checking her ex-boyfriend's profile online, putting make-up on and getting ready. The room will be dark and dusty (as if she rarely leaves it or goes outside of her house). This will help to emit raw emotions of loneliness. Empty alcohol bottles and cigarette packets will be placed around the room to tie the video with the lyrics - "to kill yourself with bad habits".
2) Forest/woods
We will film Phoebe walking and lip-syncing through the woods as part of our music video. It helps keep the visuals interesting if there is a variety of locations in which our character is filmed in. Also often people walk through the woods to get away from the struggles of everyday/home life because they are peaceful and tranquil. Our character is shown to be experience a break-up, which is saddening for her, thus, we wanted to film Phoebe in the woods as it shows that she is trying to escape the emotions she is feeing and try to clear her head.
3) Guards Park (Island)
It was Bonnie's suggestion to use Guards Park Island (facing the Maidenhead Bridge) as one of our locations for our music video. As a group we discussed how we thought that it would be possible to gain very effective shots of Phoebe walking up and down this bridge or sitting on the bench positioned opposite, as she reflects on the meaning of the song.
We also want to use that same bench, which is situated in the middle of the island to film the initials carved into the bench of the girl and her ex-boyfriend. This will make for an effective music video as it shows the typical activities that couples do and conforms to the media's representation of modern day couple life. Due to practical and financial difficulties we are unable to actually film this music video in New York City and so we want to constantly remind the audience that the girl is in a city but it is not New York. We have decided, as a group, to use this as a representation of Brooklyn Bridge in New York, because despite as much as we would like we cannot film in New York City, as previously explained. We also thought that by filming Phoebe walking across and looking out at the surrounding water would be very reflective of the way she is feeling and what she is experiencing.
4) Maidenhead Town Centre
As a group we have decided to include some footage of Phoebe walking through Maidenhead High Street. This helps bring some continuity to the music video as it helps to audience believe that the female character is actually on a journey rather than just random locations for variety purposes. This is also a representation of Maidenhead being a smaller version of New York City. Also, at night we thought this location would be effective to film in due to all the street/shop lights illuminating around her as she walks straight down the middle of the high street.
We thought that this will be the most effective location of all because it will make for a very cool shot. Being able to see the entire town lit-up at night will show just how deep the girl's emotions run and that they are constantly with her - through day and night. We think that the effect filming at night will bring to the music video and theme we are trying to project will work well and in our favour.
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