Research&Planning:More on Location.

I think that Grenfell College would be a really good place to film some of our music video as it combines two of the most common locations for music videos, school and an abandoned building. So to see if it would be suitable to film in I went to take a look around and took some pictures of the location.

Reasearch&Planning: Locations for filming.

As we have now chosen our genre of music, although not yet decided on an artist, we can begin to think of locations that we can shoot in.

For rock/alternative music there is a number of different places in which we could set our music video, however there are a few common locations that are often used in professional videos that we could recreate in ours. These include:

A forest/wood,

This location is often used in music videos as it creates a moody and creepy atmosphere which can sometimes go with the song. The music video to Radiohead-There There is one example of this.

If we were to chose to film in a wood then there are a lot of places around maidenhead which would fit, such as the thicket.

An abandoned building,

Another commonly used location is somewhere abandoned, quite often this place will look run down and old, with graffiti, litter and debris around. This is used a lot as it gives a raw, edgy feel to the video and this works with the genre of punk and rock. An example of this is Blink 182- Stay Together for the Kids.

A place where we could film is the abandoned college on Grenfell Road, Maidenhead.

School,

One of the most common locations, especially for these genres, is a school. As a lot of artist’s music can be aimed at teenagers it makes sense to have music videos set in a school as it means the audience can relate to the music.  Hinder- Without you, is a music video set in an American high school.

Obviously we could film at our own school, Newlands.

Church,

One more popular location to set music videos in is a church, this is because a majority of churches have been around for a long time and therefore have an old, ancient and quite creepy feel to them and this can be quite atmospheric.  An example is Franko-Vienna.

We could film in St. Joseph’s church,

Research&Planning:More Possible Artists.

As a group we have decided that we would like to film a music video for a rock/punk/metal/alternative genre and so we have been doing some more research into possible artists that we could use.

100 Monkeys. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Monkeys

http://www.myspace.com/these100monkeys

They have released a few singles and  an album in January 2011, but split up earlier this year due to one of the members leaving the band, however they were never signed to a record label and so we could probably obtain copyright from the band.

Lost Without Lacie.

http://www.myspace.com/lostwithoutlacie

http://www.reverbnation.com/lostwithoutlacie

Self-described as a pop punk band, Lost Without Lacie are also unsigned and formed of three members, they have a lot of songs recorded and avalabile for download from music sharing websites.

Billy Gregory.

http://www.myspace.com/billygregoryacoustic

http://www.facebook.com/BillyGregoryMusic

'17 years old and ten months on from releasing his debut single ‘We’ll Dance the Night Away’ he is back with new single ‘Normal’. Racking up over 100,000 YouTube hits and selling hundreds of copies of his debut ep on iTunes he’s been making waves and is keen to come back with a bang.'