Locations

Locations

Locations always have a huge impact on how many films are run, they can make or break a scene if they aren’t set up properly in correlation with the story. Usually song lyrics have the ability to tell a story and if you analyse the lyrics you can identify they story they are telling and this can give you a variety of locations to use. Punk Rock songs such as Teenage Dirtbag do indeed tell a story and give away locations to use for the majority of the song. Whereas Pop songs can have a wide range of meanings throughout the music videos, these differ to how the director and how the pop artist see them of course. Our new song is R.City Locked Away ft. Adam Levine which looks at two people wanting to be together but not for the materialistic things that come with a relationship.

Locations

Nathans House (Robbery) - Nathans House is used as the robbery site, for props to be included we will need to have all black stylish clothing , the clothing is used for them to look ordinary while the audience will also be able to see they are the robbers. The House is a normal house in which ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ (who is known for the notorious robberies and killings) will rob and steal jewellery from this house, at this point the police will come and arrest Clyde, this is where the scene will refer back to the ‘prison’.

Mr Dallas’s office (Interview Room) – The room needs to be a professional setting as it is playing the interview room in our film, there needs to be paperwork behind desks as well as for Nathan (The Detective) to use a file to act as a case file for Clyde. Clothing needs to be smart (preferably a suit) for Nathan where as Kyle (Clyde) will need to be wearing a tracksuit so he can look comfortable and be unprofessional. Facial Expressions are plain and hard since they need to keep in any emotions.

Medical Room (The Cell) – The Medical Room is being used to act as Clyde’s cell, this is where we will film several shots of Clyde in his cell. The medical room is a small space with very little equipment other than a bed and a sink which is why I feel it would be great to use as a cell. Costumes would be simple clothing such as a tracksuit for Kyle as he is awaiting his trial and to be charged so therefor he would be in the stereotypical orange jumpsuit. There won’t be anything else in the room other than the bed for the mise-en-scene, and his facial expressions would be distraught since he lost bonnie, he would be pacing around the room and sitting on the bed with his head in his hands.

Any House (Bonnie and Clyde’s home) – Bonnie and Clyde’s house isn’t really seen inside so we only need to film them coming out the outside, this is the only time we will see them outside another house as we can use Nathans House for the inside since the inside of his house isn’t seen when being robbed. There is no mise-en-scene for this as the homes need to look as normal as possible.

By Danniella Chapman