Locations for the Final Music Video

The setting of any music video is of the upmost importance as a wrong location choice can ruin the entire video despite any other visuals in the video. In conjunctive videos, the location must match and correspond with both the other visuals displayed and also the lyrics in order for the video to flow professionally. In disjunctive videos, the circumstances are of course different but this does not apply to our video as we are planning to visualise the lyrics using both the setting and the artists performing the narrative elements of the video. Therefore, as we are trying to visualise the lyrics, the location will need to be perfect else we will portray the wrong image across to the audience which will lead to the visuals not matching the lyrics which is not what we intend.

After much contemplation on the subject, we have decided upon our locations for the video. We have decided to implement a wide variety of locations throughout the video that connote isolation and loneliness as this will be fitting with the lyrics of our chosen song: "Lonely Boy". We wanted to include multiple different locations as we this is common convention we have seen in videos across all genres and believe this will make our video more interesting oppose to only a few locations being used. However, finding multiple suitable locations is a arduous task considering the importance of the locations for the video but we believe it is necessary to allow the video to convey the message that we have planned. 

Firstly, the predominant location for the performance elements of the video will be in a grassy field with little/no infrastructure within the shots used. Also, we plan to film in a slightly forested pathway again with very little infrastructure.  This will ensure the focus is on the band and the instruments. This is a common convention used in videos within our genre where the band are located in a natural environment such as Olympic Airways- Foals. This will also benefit us as there as less variables that will have to consider as there will be very few members of the public passing through the area and we will be legally allowed to film. We will only have to be concerned with weather and lighting.

For the majority of the narrative shots we will be using deprived, derelict run down areas of Leicester's city centre to again connote isolation and loneliness to illustrate the lyrics. The decision to use a city centre for some of our shots was made as it will be juxtaposed with the natural nature shots for the performance part of the video and will lead to a fitting mix of both locations. Within the city location, we plan to film the leading band member (in the narrative shots) alone in what appear to be locations that would usually be deserted such as small back streets and alleys and we also plan to show the band member alone in places that would usually be thriving and very busy. Both clearly illustrating the lyrics of our chosen song.

Dependant upon access issues, we also plan to film some narrative shots in a abandoned engineering site in a village near to we live. We believe this would be a very effective location to connote loneliness and would also be intuiting for the audience as it is a rather unusual setting to use for a music video. It would also set our video apart from other music videos from similar genres.

Forested walkway

Old, Run Down street- Leicester 

Busy Highstreet- Leicester 

Derelict Building- Whetstone