The locations

The location is crucial to any music video. Mise en scene is one of the main elements as it helps to set the scene for the audience and it also helps to create a relationship with the audience and the genre of the song. The location helps the audience to understand the genre and further sets the mood of the song which would help them understand what it is about.

Location one:

This location is Lola’s bedroom. I feel that this location denotes the mise en scene of the actress because it shows her personality through the colours and props used around the bed, for example the floral bed cover and films and books shown on the shelf. I feel that this would relate to my target audience of young teenage girls because it shows a typical girly girl which is who my audience are intended to be as they would stereo-typically like flowers and watching films and bright feminine colours. 

Location two:

This location shows the balcony which is located outside Lola’s bedroom. In this scene of the music video Sarah is going to rip up the Polaroid pictures of her and James and throw them outside. I believe that this location is a major safety hazard because there is no barrier to stop me or Sarah from falling and also the equipment falling and being damaged. To prevent this from happening we will both have to be extra careful when filming.

Location three:

This location is in New Eltham Park. This location will appear in the music video when there is a flashback to when they were in a relationship being happy and in love. I believe that this location is very suitable as whilst I was planning which locations to use I needed to ensure that all of my locations were fairly local as I needed to make certain that my actors would be able to get to the locations easily, especially if I need to re film. As New Eltham Park is just around the corner from Sarah’s house she already knows where it is so wouldn't be confused on how to get there. It also takes less than ten minutes to walk there so it wouldn't be time consuming. I hope to film in this location when it is a typical autumnal day with plenty of leaves on the floor, this is because I would like my actors to be playing around in the leaves having fun. I feel that if it rains on the day I plan to film it could ruin the overall outlook on how I want this scene to look. It could also be a safety hazard because my actors may slip over whilst running around in the leaves. This means I need to ensure I check the weather forecast prior to filming in this location. 

Location four:

This location denotes Lola’s house. I believe that this is a very welcoming and typical family home. This is where most of the scenes in my music video will be taking place. 

Location five:

This location is in the street. This location will appear in my music video when Lola and James were together but things were becoming to become a problem, this is due to what is portrayed in the scene. They both will be walking down the street but they will appear to look very distant from each other with James on his phone and Sarah walking next to him looking annoyed and upset. The connotations of using this location and their relationship falling apart is significant because you would imagine that a healthy couple would look happy whilst holding hands and both looking like they want to be with each other. Whereas, in this scene James will come across as being rude as he will not be giving any attention to Lola and instead looking at his phone. I hope that when I film in this location that the street will be quiet and we will not be interrupted a lot by any people walking along the street whilst filming. To ensure this doesn't happen I will film at a time of day where the traffic will not be that busy and also when not a lot of people will be around. I believe that this will be mid-afternoon as most people will be at work and also children will just be leaving school so they will not yet make an appearance. There is a train station very local to this street so I will have to make sure I do not filming during the hours of 5-7pm because I already know that it gets extremely busy with people walking home from work. This will mean it would become very hard to film the shots which I need.