-T R A F A L G A R S Q U A R E

-B R O A D W A T E R P A R K

-A N G E L L I S A ’ S H O U S E

-S O P H I A ’ S H O U S E

-- O U R S C H O O L

LOCATION REPORTS

TRAFALAGAR SQUARE

Following the lines within the song, ‘I’ll be your strength when you get lost in the crowd’. We have chosen to use a crowded place with both a fountain and a busy atmosphere. This is because we want to emphasise that despite all that is going on around them, all that matters to them is each other. We also wanted to emphasise that it is a romantic place that can be related back to their childhood place. And this fountain portrays it as a significant place.

The risk of this location is that there will be other people around; therefore we need to inform them that we will be filming and whether or not their okay with being in the backgrounds of the shots so that they won’t get offended. In order to get to this location, both our production team and crew team will have to get the train. Due to this we have chosen not to take our younger two cast members as there are further risks with carrying children to crowded places. Therefore in order for our idea to work we chose a similar child-friendly environment –Broadwater farm.

BROADWATER PARK

We choose this location to film the younger two members of our production team, to correlate with the significant romantic setting of Trafalgar square in order to end our video. We choose to do this as our intention is to end our video with a 360°degree panning between the two settings and the younger and older couple, showing that their current relationship is parallel to the relationship they had when they were younger.

In order to film at the location it was essential that permission was seeked in order to take the children to the park, despite it being a 10 minute walk. As taking children out meant that we had full responsibility for their safety when crossing the road and walking on the street. For this location it was easy to avoid getting other people in the shots as it was a large location, however it was still polite to inform those around that we would be filming so that they would not be offended.

ANGELLISA’S HOUSE

The reason we choose to use Angellisa’s house rather than to use Sophia’s house, was because the progression of time and that even though their surroundings have changed, that their love for one another has remained the same. Because Angellisa has a younger sister it was also easier to access toys, than for us to carry them from one location to another. The toys we used in the background were associated with childhood.

This location only required the younger two cast members and is only used for a very short section of our music video. Where we show flashbacks of them either playing or fighthing.

Even though this is a personal location, it is still essential that we seeked permission from Angellisa’s mum to ensure that she was okay with us filming in the house.

SOPHIA’S HOUSE

We choose to use Sophia’s house, as not only was it convenient and saved us time. It also ticked all the boxes of the type of things we wanted in order for our idea to be fulfilled. For example at the start of our video we wanted our main actress to be sitting at the window looking out. And the way Sophia’s bedroom was situated with a window seat made this an ideal location. It was also a girl’s room which meant that we had to make minimum changes, for example taking down personal pictures and replacing them with images of our cast.

It was also easier to use her living room which saved time and was also we lit with kept consistent lighting when filming.

This is the location in which majority of our music video from the beginning. Even though this was a more personal location it was still important that we asked permission from Sophia’s mum to ensure that she was okay with us filming in the house.

OUR SCHOOL:ST. ANNE’S CATHOLIC HIGH

SCHOOL FOR GIRLS

For a short length of our music video, we wanted to film outside of a hospital ‘North Middlesex Hospital’, as the storyline we have chosen to carry out correlates around the film of a ‘Casualty’ which mirrors and reflects the name of ‘Casualty of Love’. For this particular location we needed to seek permission as we do not own the property and there will be vulnerable and other people around, who may be offended. However after seeking permission we were informed that we would not be able to use the location due to a lack of staff to supervise us.

However we were not defeated by this, and choose to improvise. We decided that we would create our own signs and transform our school’s student services, into something that looked like the outside of a doctors room. For this location we need to seek permission from our teacher, to film after school hours. In order to film at this location we need both our production team and the older to members of our casting crew. Therefore as we attend a girls school it was essential that we seeked permission to have our boy (Tash), on school premises.