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LOCATION: SOUTHBANK

Why did we choose SouthBank?

There are many reasons to why we chose to use South Bank as our final location. Firstly, we liked the urban flavour of the area, the variety of the colours used in the location reflects the diversity of Lola's character as a artist. We had to think about how our target audience would take to the pictures, therefore we thought that this particular location would be catchy as it signified the isolation of Lola's character therefore the audience could relate the two.

Effective Points?

-The deserted tunnel signifies the isolation and loneliness of Lola's character and artist, which re-enforces the theme's we want to portray. 

-The graffiti and props used in the location's (such as unclean road, dimmed lights, rusty lamp posts, rubbish) made the location be portray more realistic in the pictures which was an important element to be considered.

-The art of graffiti adds to the punky edgy look that Lola projects through her music, which is effective, as the audience can relate to the lyrics, images and Lola herself.

On Set 4!

Harris Academy Music Room


We chose this location to host our 'band scene'. This scene was used in the middle of our music video, to show a different side to our singer, Lola Malibu. We decided to have a 'band scene' to break up the storyline, instead of carrying the story throughout. We used various angled shots to present each member of the band individually as well as a band. 
As you can see, we gave each of us a role within the band with the addition of another person. 

 

Drummer: Zulekha      Singer/Guitar: Riham  Keyboard/Back up : Anisha
We decided on adding a certain effect on our band sequence to give it a dazzling celebrity look to it, to portray it to be a realistic performance, which I feel we achieved. The good factor about this scene was filming it as it was extreamly enjoyable and fun whilst experimenting with instruments we never have played before!

On Set 3!

Location 3 - 'Harris Academy South Norwood' TV Studio


This scene was created to move on from the 'Band Scene' we are beginning to film, we called this the 'Performance Scene'. The idea of this scene was a solo performance done by Lola Malibu, we used different gel's to create an effect of a tint to the lighting whilst also using a variety of camera angles to portray the performance.

      

The effect of the red gives off a sense of a real live gig which is the main aim we wanted to accomplish with this scene. We inserted gels on to the lights as you can see above, which gave off the red glow. 

As Lola Malibu did her performance, I was busy filming the entire thing, I had to get in some rather uncomfortable spots to get the camera angle footage that I need as you can see below. 

On set 2!

Location 2 - Harris Academy South Norwood (Classroom Scene)


The main idea of the 'classroom scene' was to portray the character as an outsider within her class friends as well as being excluded by the teacher. To accomplish this we decided to use an ordinary classroom within our school to ensure that the location being seen was realistic and not a made up set. 


We had a few problems prior to filming as we couldn't set the correct settings to our HD video camera as it was set to default, this wasted some of the precious time we had. However by the end of shooting, we gathered the shots we needed for our music video. 

On Set 1!

Location 1 - Beulah Heights (Chase Scene)

For the audience to get a feel of our location, I decided to video part of the location, as we made our way to the destination. As you can tell we decided to locate our 'chase scene' within a park/forest area, the advantages of using this as our setting were:
- Theme of 'loneliness'.
- Trapped feeling.
- Naturalistic atmosphere.


The concept of this 'Chase Scene' was based on the idea of the title of the song 'Don't Let Me Get Me', where there are two sides of her personality. The good girl (sober, drug free) whilst the bad girl (junkie and druggie) is trying to get back at her, which is why we thought filming this scene would be effective.


Location Photo's

Weather Forecast

Prior to filming, we had to ensure that weather conditions wouldn't interfere with our filming, therefore we did an on-line weather forecast check the night before. Results showed that Friday was to be light rain, this made us re-think whether to film on this day, as we couldn't film on Thursday due to one team member being ill. Therefore we just went with our gut feeling and filmed on the Friday, and due to luck, at the times we filmed the sun was shinning, which resulted in a successful filming day.