pre production planning-

Before I set out to film to footage for my music video, there were some factors I had to make a dicision on:
-The Location
-The Actors
-planning when and where I will meet my actors on the days I want to film, and working around their schedule to ensure they'll also be free.

The main theme of the video is a romantic and upbeat relationship, between two cheerful characters that go along with the upbeat song and the lyrics that tell a story. Therefore, I asked my friend Florrie who is a bubbly girl I thought might fit the role. She is also a friend of Scott, and as they are familiar with each other I asked them as their comfort and happy attitude would come across as genuine on camera.

The main location I used is the Chapelfield park. This is a small park surrounded by trees and benches, that have sweet and romantic connotations. The natural environment is often assosciated with the acoustic genre of music, and the happy and upbeat flow of the song goes well with the area.

This is the location of Chapelfield park on a map of Norwich. It isn't far from where I live, only a short bus ride meaning it was easily accesible. My actors also live in relative proximity to this site, and so posed as an ideal location. Around the park there are many benches and a gazebo in the center, that I used as props in scenes of my music video. The park is open and exposed to bright lighting, that made filming much easier  and it added to the happier feel of the video. It also offered the opportunity for clear shots of the sky, unobstructs by buildings meaning I was able to get striking shots of the early evening sky at sunset which had great romantic connotations.

Here is a photograph of Chapelfield park. When I shot my video it was in the Autumn and Winter season, so the grass was covered with the fallen leaves and the bright orange colours and bright lighting added to the sweet and innocent feel of the video, and goes with the conventions of the acoustic music genre

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