Location planning

As we have chosen our song to be wonderwall by oasis, there are a vast amount of locations that we could use to film this. My first idea was to film this out side on hilltops because of the cliffs and deep scenery that would surround the characters. In the lyrics of wonderwall there is a part that says “maybe, you’re gonna be the one that saves me”. This made me think that the main character of the video would be falling off a cliff and gets saved by some form of miracle or person as a moral. I thought that this would be a good idea because of the bright skies and the contrasts that would be created with the characters and the fields. A disadvantage that I saw with a location like this would be the silhouette of the characters if they were against the sun on the fields. I thought that this might be a good chance to take advantage of this effect but I think that it would get boring after a while for the audience.

I tried to take a lot of the lyrics into consideration of where I was going to film this video. Another set of lyrics that I found were “and all the roads we had to walk are winding, and all the lights that light the way are blinding”. The first thing that popped into my head for these lyrics is a city scene that would be hosted by the night with bright streetlights. These lights could have great effects on my character because they could silhouette them again. And it would also light the near by scenery very well with its orange glow. This would present some ideal effects for characters and camera. Also if I could get an establishing shot of this city then I would be able to create some great effects in the editing process on the clip. This could include streaming lights through all the roads at night to show time speeding through.

One other idea that I had for a location would be to host the video in an English home. The reason I thought this was because that this video could be about a relationship that is recovering from some rough patches. If this was the case then I think that the video would start with a lot of arguing at the beginning and then slowly get better through out. Most of these scenes would suit the location of a home best because it brings the audience closer to the characters because of the small spaces. Also if we were to film in a small living room then we would have limited space to move which would mean that most of the shots were medium long shots, medium shots or close ups. This would present some quite limited shots that I would be able to use for the video, but on the other hand it would bring the camera closer to the relevant characters and objects that are in the music video.