Locations

We used a range of locations for our music video. For our narrative we used natural locations such as bedrooms, a skate park and a launderette. The theme of naturalism was decided on to reflect the sincerity of the lyrics, which the artist had written as a response to her own life situation. For the band shots, we used the school studio and customised the background to reflect the song.

Bedroom 1

The first bedroom we used supposed to reflect the bedroom of a teenage girl. We used Daniella's room as her room had the perfect balance that suggested this. The walls were blue and brown with a pink bed. We felt that using too munch pink would be childlike and not suit our situation. The bed here was conveniently placed so we were able to film from different sections of the room without anything getting in our way.

Bedroom 2

The other bedroom we used was purple and blue themed, this was supposed to be a neutral bedroom that could belong to a male. We felt that even though these colours were light, they worked for a male and showed a contrast between the more feminine personalised room and a masculine room. This demonstrates the 'bedroom culture' which girls develop at a young age in comparison to boys. In this room, there was less place to move with the camera which made it harder to vary our types of shot. However, we found that this room was a good location to present the idea of the protagonist not really being in the location but having a more ghost like form.

Skate Park

In our opinion, the 'rock chick' image sometimes is associated with skateboarding. We also felt that by following this, we could get a broad range of shots. We were lucky that it was a quiet day which made is easier for us to film and focus on our actors without getting in the way of other skateboarders. it also gave us an outdoor location rather than constantly indoors. The use of levels in the skate park worked to our advantage as we could stand on different levels to film rather than complicating our actors too much. Also as skateboarder cannot plan what will happen while they are active, we were able to use this opportunity to just film anything that happened without a specific plan. This meant that the camera was constantly on but in different parts or at different heights. Our idea turned out to be effective as it meant the actors were more realistic and felt less pressured, which was ideal for their safety.

Launderette

The launderette belongs to my father and so we had easy access to it, we had been told that many university media students use the launderette as a location. The idea of filming in a laundrette was thought of as different and new. We used it to show more of the relationship between the leading man and woman. As with the skate park, it was a quiet time when we filmed which made it easier to film quickly. We had an issue when filming, the staff had changed the baskets we had in the background when we started to film and so we were delayed from our finish as we had to re film certain shots. The laundrette illustrated the social class and age of our actors. Daniella and I discussed the representation this would give our actors, Daniella insisted that a middle class teenager would assist their parent by taking laundry to be done. I argues that many middle class families would own a washing machine and so I would suggest them to be working class in this situation. After this debate we sat watching the types of people who used the Lauderette and concluded that middle class would be realistic. Having the male lead work there, showed the average middle class teenager who will take any job to gain a bit of money and so we thought his postion there was realistic.

Studio

By using the studio we could use the white walls and black covers and customise it however we wanted to match it with our theme. We liked the Paramore video for 'Misery Buisness' and wanted to use a similar idea to their band shots. We used our chosen colour scheme of pink and black and we wrote 'Fantasy Boy' similar to the way that 'Riot' is written in the Paramore.