Location Scouting Part One

After researching our artists identity and style, we began to think of places that could be used in conjuction with her image in our music video. We started to discuss what we were looking for in the seperate locations needed, which we belived had to be all natural to fit with Amanda Rogers image - naturalistic, free and concerned about more than just superficial appearances.

Black Park
Situated adjecent to Pinewood Studios, Black Park Country Park has been used for numerous film and television productions throughout the years, including James Bond, Superman and Harry Potter. The park is filled with over 535 acres of woodland and heathland, with a large lake and numerous tall tree forests that lend it a very cinematic feel, with lots of scope for innovative ideas and stylistic shooting.

We scoured most of the large park looking for things that could be useful in our video and most especially inspired us when developing ideas. Our track, This Beauty, is very much about nature and staying natural to yourself, protecting the real and the right. We have always felt as group that we would need to set the music video in an open, awe inspiring yet naturalistic environment (at least for part of the video). In Black Park we were able to find places that sparked that feeling and from this, we now have a firmer idea of the specific scenes we want to be included in the video.

We envisioned shots of our performer interweaving through clusters of trees similar to this photo

This was one of the locations in Black Park that we've definitely decided on using. We loved the contrast of the green tops of the trees with the almost misty looking twigs and truncks. These colours would combine beautifully with the bright colours we intend to dress our performer in. It also evokes one of the key messages of the album from which our track is from- that there is beauty in everything, even in death.

We thought long shots would work beautifully in this location as from a distance the greyish/brown colour of the twigs evokes a misty-like atmosphere, which not only is aesthetically appealing but will contrast well with our performer.

We also considered intercutting different colse ups of the surrounding nature in with the perofrming shots.

Finally another idea that we came up with was various shots of our "Amanda" interweaving through some sort of branch structure.