Setting and Location

Where I film my video is an important part of my video, it gives a sense of who the characters are and where they come from. I considered multiple places for my video however I felt it best to keep the houses and streets of where my actors actually live. The hopes of doing this is that they not only know where they are going/filming, but they also feel more comfortable and I will be able to get a better audience out of them.

Because of where I live and the time of year we are filming in, I can only film council house/ run down area in the winter. This contrasts with the happiness of the song which is an issue. However I feel like the area I film could make the statement of how we are happy where we choose to be and we dont need a rich area to project a happy lifestyle.

Thurcroft is the home of Megan Strutt and so that's where my video begins. It starts with landscape shots of nearby fields to give a sense of who she is and where she's from. It's fortunate that her house is far away because I can timelapse the car journey and speed it up which is a shot I am wanting at some point In my video. For Megan Tweed's house I am using a friend Briony Canning's house as Tweeds house is on a busy main road and you can't see the door from the road. Briony's house however is not on a main road and I can get a good range of shots and angles of Tweed as she exits this house.

Liam has agreed to let me film him getting ready in his house, this is a shot I need to give a wider depth of characters other than Megan and Tweed. His house is close to both Megan's and Charlie's, this means it is an easy shoot location.