Location Shots

For our main locations, my group are looking at using a bar setting for a narrative and a stage setting for the more literal performance shots.

This is the stage we're looking to use for our music video, it's big and has a lot of room to accomodate our ideas for instruments and dancers etc. The floor in front of the stage could also be used for this purpose. We'd use a lot of uplighting, decor and perhaps a large projection to design the stage in a way that will suit our genre and look more beautiful on camera.

In terms of cinematography, I've taken this photograph as a long shot because we plan to use a long shot in our video as this would allow us to show the viewer the whole band. This links to our genre and our target audience as the fact that Veronica Summer's music isn't manufactured plays a big part in the type of people she appeals to and creating her image. We want Veronica Summer to come across as a passionate and intelligent artist who cares about and is deeply involved in her music which is conventional of a soul artist. We will also be using close up shots of our artist and perhaps of individual members of the band to introduce the artist and highlight her importance.




The above video showcases photographs of our proposed locations in a bar setting, we chose this bar because the red backdrop is perfect for our colour scheme and conventional to our genre. As well as this the bar is modern and fresh and generally just looks really good, so we thought it would fit with the glamorous side of our artist.

In the bar we will be using a range of shots and camera movements as this is where the main dancing with our backing dancers will take place so we will be using a lot of tracking to show this and to highlight the liveliness and fun elements to our somewhat serious soul artist.

We will also be using the interior of the black taxi pictured above. This connotes the artist's British roots and fits with the British Contemporary Soul genre, particularly as this setting has been used by popular soul artists most notably Duffy. However, we will be decorating the cab to create a much different atmosphere to what Duffy created by using balloons and bright colours.

I decided to take this photograph from this angle because this would be an ideal shot type for our music video. For our idea, we require that our artist is quite still throughout as we want to create the effect of balloons appearing and in our editing stages this will require some continuity in our filming to make this effective. As well as this we need to mark specific placement also for our camera and tripod, in the above shot I am sitting on a chair diagonal from the one in which our artist will be sat and this angle fits in well with our storyboard and currently planned ideas. This long-mid shot would also allow the viewer to understand the artist by seeing her costume and how it's adapted along with balloons, feather boas and other decorative seemingly appearing from nowhere as the chorus continues.