New Location

Locations are an essential part of any music video. They can hugely effect how the audience perceives a new music act. Especially if it is a new band trying to break into the music world.

We contacted many locations to ask if we were able to use them however, during this process we encountered many problems. One of the main problems we had was the date of our shoot, a lot of the locations that we contacted had events on the date we were filming. Another issue we encountered was the cost which they would need in order for us to secure the location, some of them asked for huge amounts of money in which we just couldn't afford. We also found that some locations were not willing to let us use the location due to our status as students rather than big production companies in which could promote them as a business.

Below is a list of locations we contacted, all of which turned our request down:

• Wilton's Music Hall, London




• The Barn Theatre, Oxted




• The King's Theatre, Southsea




• New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth




• Cranleigh Arts Centre, Cranleigh

Here is a copy of an email in which we wrote to The Barn Theatre, Oxted:

To Whom It May Concern,

I am a student from a sixth form college in Surrey and am studying Media A2 level. For our coursework in the A2 year we are required to shoot a pop video, for our video we are shooting a band called They Toy Hearts who are an up and coming band who have just got home from touring in America. I am working in a production team of four people in total. I have visited the Barn Theatre recently to watch The Happiest Days Of Your Life and really liked the look of the theatre and think it would look really good in our video. We would like to shoot the video on the 22nd November for a whole day. I would just like to know how much it would cost and what conditions you have. A quick response would be greatly appreciated so we can make alternative arrangements if necessary.

Thanks
Josh Gorman

Eventually, however we did gain access to a good location named Grange Park. We got access to this through our Lighting Director, he works for them several months of the year int he opera house section of the mansion. Grange Park is located just outside of Winchester in a rural area. It is a very old grand house with a very dilapidated interior, this is exactly the style of location we were looking for. The interior of the house is very dilapidated and contains many rooms all in different stages of restoration. The exterior of the house is very grandiose and very imposing and looks very typically English, which is exactly what we are going for. Luckily we will be able to visit the location on the 5th November as a crew on another music video. This will give us a chance to scope out exactly where we want to shoot and possible shots we can use. Unfortunately as we have only just decided the location we haven't had a chance to storyboard for it, however we will try and do this once we have visited the location on the 5th November.

Below are some pictures of the location, some of the exterior and some of the interior as well.

Here are some shots of the exterior of the house.