Location Research ( including recce shots)

Maidenhead High Street ( Town Centre)

As a group we have decided to include some of our filming of our music video in Maidenhead Town Centre as part of the girls journey in the music video. We want to use Maidenhead town as a smaller version of 'New York City'. At night we thought that filming in this location will work well for our music video and will be effective.

Guards park - White bridge and brown bridge  behind it

As a group we have decided to use Guards park bridge as part of our music video. Our reasons being that we thought by filming Phoebe walking across and looking at the bridge would be very reflective of the way she is feeling. The bridge is almost acting as a bridge in 'New York City' e.g 'Brooklyn Bridge'. Therefore as we cannot film in the City of New York we thought this would be a good location to include in our music video. At night we thought this would be a good time to film as we are having our whole music video set in the night time rather than the day time as we thought again that filming in the evening is much more effective for the song and the lyrics of the song.

Maidenhead Car Park

 As a group we decided to use the top of a Car Park  in Maidenhead as we wanted to get a full perspective of Maidenhead town centre. We decided to show the whole 360 view of Maidenhead town centre as if it was New York City.

We thought filming in this location would be effective to the audience to see a town illuminated at night, as if it was New York City. As we are not able to film in New York City we thought by using Maidenhead as a town even though it is not a city would be very effective to the audience as well as the lyrics being in conjunction with the visuals.

Guards Park ( Island)

We decided to use Guards park, the island in the middle of the water facing Maidenhead Bridge. We as a group thought this would be very effective as the girl is sitting on the bench looking out to Maidenhead Bridge as she is reflecting on her emotions.

 We also want to use the bench which is in the middle of the island  and film a specific carving on the bench of the girl and her boyfriend. This will be good in terms of our music video as it will show how the journey which the girl is going on is reflecting upon her emotions as well as the lyrics linking well with the visuals in the music video. We also want to give the audience a constant reminder that the girl is in a  city but not in New York City. Therefore by choosing this location we thought it could be representative of a bridge/ or place in New York City.

Again,  we want the light to be dark, to reflect the girls mood/emotion throughout the music video and at this point in the music video. As we film in the evening the lights from different surrounding locations such as ' The Blue River Cafe' and 'The Rowing club' will illuminate. We thought this effect when filming at night would be effective for our music video and the theme which we are portraying throughout our music video.

This is the middle of Guards park island where there is a forest in the middle of the island looking out towards Maidenhead Bridge. We decided upon this location as we thought that it would be effective if Phoebe was walking towards the camera during the forest as is she was reflecting upon her feelings of breaking up with her boyfriend and him getting into a relationship with another girl. We thought that this was a effective location to use and would be representative of Phoebe's thoughts and feelings as she is walking through the forest.

Bedroom 

As a group we  decided to use Phoebe's bedroom in our music video as we thought this would fit well with what we are trying to portray throughout our music video. The bedroom will be used when Phoebe is getting ready to go out on her journey to the different locations above and when she is looking at her ex-boyfriends Facebook page on her laptop. The bedroom has significance of a typical teenagers bedroom too. The bedroom will have links to 'New York City' around the bedroom, to reinforce the theme throughout the music video.