Locations

As a group, we all took the time to go an visit different locations around Manchester before we decided on the final few locations where we would film.

Firstly, we decided to start our music video by opening with an establishing shot which will be taken from the roof of Manchester Arndale shopping centre. This enables us to have a birds eye view of the town and include recognisable buildings in the shot.

Moreover, after walking through it, we have decided to use different parts of Castlefield for the main part of our music video. It is a striking, quiet location with features that suit the lyrics and mood of our song. For example, it has a beautiful quiet park where the character can remember her happy memories and a dull canal and bridge where she has a heart braking moment.

Furthermore, we found the most favourable place to film the dancing scene's for our music video is the Zion Arts Centre. It has special dancing studies where the dancers feel comfortable performing, where we can control the background and lighting and where we can take many different camera shots. This will then make our music video more creative and exciting.

However, we chose not to use a train station as we may not have been able to get permission to film and it would have made keeping continuity difficult, as different people are there everyday.

Finally, we also decided not to film in Manchester town centre or in our college as they are popular an boring location choices and we preferred to find somewhere different an new.