Technical Theatre 10

Today has been all about location scouting for our music videos.
Elvina, Ryan and I already had an idea that we wanted to film at the fountains by UAL, so we went straight there.
Our video is apocalyptic, so we need to use areas that are quite spacious and interesting.

We have chosen to use the fountains as planned, which we can have people running through and getting splashed, and we can have close up shots of their feet splashing down into the water as they run.
We're also using the open space there in front of the building and the steps, because there's a lot of space to have some extras, and we can have people hurrying down the steps and maybe even falling.
The canal, the footbridge along it, and the woodland just behind it will be part of the video too.
I think that the woodland will make for great visuals because it can kind of subliminally represent the wild theme of the song, and the way we're exploring people's dark and animal sides.
We're also using the viewing box that looks over the Kings Cross area so that we can get shots of the city from higher up and can also use the staircase inside to show how desolate and abandoned things are becoming.
We want the video to be really dramatic, and these spaces will allow for lots of chase scenes, and we can use how empty they are to show that the world around the main characters is getting darker and lonelier. I think it's going to look good!

We also looked at continuity today and Becca explained to us why it's important that we are on top of this and don't make any mistakes. We've gone over the things that we need to keep track of when making our video and I feel that having discussed it we'll be more likely to notice continuity issues we may come across.