Location Recce

Film Studio

The film studio located in A22 at Leyton Sixth Form College is a perfect location for filming the skeleton of our music video. This is due to the fact that it has a black background accompanied by a variety of lighting equipment which means that we will be able to film various different effects to be more appealing to our target audience. Also, the area in the film studio is big, therefore we will be able to film from various angles which is vital for our music video.

Essex Road

Essex Road is located directly next to the college and when me and my partner were looking around we found a nice wall which was a good height to be able to record one of our cutscenes. It is very local so we can record during college hours and it will fit into the theme of grime/rap music which is our genre. 
Whilst researching about music within our genre i found several music videos whereby the main actor was sitting on a wall, or a higher object, and looking down into the camera. We will be able to in cooperate some of the more meaningful lyrics into this cutscene.




























Stratford Residential Flats.

These flats were good in terms of location and how attractive they looked, they were located next to the West Field shopping center, so if we needed any last minute props we could easily fetch them from nearby shops.
We filmed our scene with the suits here, this was essential since it would link together much better if rich clothing is worn in rich areas and poor or perhaps casual clothing is worn in poorer/low class areas...

This was also a good location to film in because it is also a convention of rap/grime video to be set in areas where buildings are tall and there are a  large number of balconies. An example of this is a video being set in council estates. 

The area is safe with on site security so we faced no dangers and if any were to arise we would have been assisted by site security.