Location Scouting Part Two

Langley Park
The second of the two main locations we went to visit, Langley Park is only short walk away from our first location, Black Park, making it highly convinent to access. Although it is half the size of the other nature park, this location is steeped in history and filled with a greater variety of forest areas and fields amongst beautifully detailed gardens. A noticable difference we spotted was the variety of trees and layout in this park comaperd to it's neighbour. Whilst most of Black Park was filled with tall pine trees and similar forests, Langley Park contained many of the more traditional areas we imagined in the beginning. For this reason, we believe that using specific areas from both would benfit us the most.
When compared to our lasts projects location of the London Underground, this location should be relatively easy to film in once we've gained the proper permissions, mostly due to the lack of visitors in the area and having time to make our own descisions that will not be dictated by transport and other people.
After sending off our main application to film, we'll need to decide whether these two natural locations will be the only ones used. We had another location in mind for an idea that I, personally have grown rather fond of which would involve a studio or room location. Inspired by an image from Anada's Heartwood era, it would involve newspaper and magazines cover the walls and a shift of colour from those magazines to the main performer in the video. We have yet to decide whether this will be possible to pull off.



We were fortunate enough to stumble upon this beautiful tree which we thought evoked the theme of "Heartwood" perfectly. This will be one of the main locations for our music video.  Heartwood is the centre of the tree which is not living, yet without the support of the heartwood the tree, would cease to exist. As the tree ages the diameter of the heartwood increases. There is a diagram of this on the interior of the album case, explaining that "there is growth in everything, even in death".

 

From a certain angle the interior of the tree resembles the shape of a heart- reflecting the theme of heartwood. We considered having an extra team member taking photos to use as part of our album artwork and magazine advert as the tree will probably be a central location to the music video. As the song is representing the main theme of the album, it would make sense to incorporate the locations and shots used in the video into the advert.



We considered using this structure we found in Langley Park, if it won't be destroyed by our production day. It's style was reminiscent of many of the promotional shots we've seen featuring Amanda Rogers.