Locations

There are many potential location's that we can use to film our music video, taking into consideration that we need enough room to use a green screen we had to decide on a big room so that we have space to dance and not damage any of the equipment. We have decided that one of the drama rooms would be an ideal location, this is because we will have enough room to set up the equipment we are going to use e.g. lighting, green screen and camera. In addition the drama room doesn't have any natural lighting, this will be play a major part when filming. By not having any natural lighting it means that it won't affect the green screen when filming, if there is any uneven light shone onto the green screen it could make it more difficult when editing the green screen out. Before we are able to use the room we have to be granted permission from the person who resides in the room, if we are then granted permission we have to negotiate a day and time we are able to use it.

Another location that we are looking to shoot our music video at is Woolwich Polytechnic School for boys. We have decided that we would like to use a different location other than Welling School; this is because we do not want to be predictable in our locations and we would like to think we have made an effort in finding locations other than our own school and as a group we decided that too many videos have been shot in this specific location. Woolwich Polytechnic would be a good location because people wouldn't be familiarised with this location. We would use this location to film the dance routine for the song by Britney Spears - "Hit Me Baby One More Time". The location is the main part of the song as it is set in a school, before we can use it we have to obtain permission from the school itself. Again if we are granted with permission we have to see when we are able to shoot, we have to find a time and day that suits us all.


In order to get access to these locations we will need to write a letter or even telephone the places asking for permission to use their premises in order to film our music video. We shouldn't have a problem getting permission to use the drama room within our school, all we would need to do is ask the permission of the teacher who's room it is, which we have already done. Perhaps we might draw up a letter asking for the permission so that the drama teacher can then sign it so that we have prove that the teacher allowed us to use his room. The other location that we want to use for our music video is the school Woolwich Polytechnic, in order to get permission from this school we would have to call up the school and ask for access in order to use one of its corridors out of school times in order to film our music video. This may seem like quite a tricky thing to ask and rejection could be quite likely, however it just so happens that one of the group members (Luke) mum works as a teacher in the school and she does not see it as a problem and s we shall once again write a letter and get the higher authority of the school to sign it in order to justify that we have the right to film within the school.