Setting and Location (Pitch Task 6) (CALLUM)

Preliminary Ideas:

As you can see, we had our own early indications of where we wanted to film. Fitting in with the conventions of Grime, we knew we wanted an urban setting; streets and estates. Also, with the connections to the lyrics we thought of the chip shop, which was reinforced by the fact it epitomises urbanity. The Church fits less with conventions, but DOES connect to our lyrics.

One of our early concepts which did not carry through to the honing of our ideas was that of filming a base track on a football pitch. This came from another grime video,

However, this was soon discarded. The reason for this was that in 'Picture Me', although the location looks good on camera with the floodlights, it is to an extent relevant to the song, as it talks about ambitions vs reality. For our song, 'Endz', it would be less so due to the nature of the lyrics.

UPDATE

Having looked at another video which was analysed in a later post (New Order - World in Motion), the idea of having a base track filmed in Lordship Rec with a background view of Broadwater Farm Estate is also under consideration.

UPDATE:

Due to the practical reason of filming in our hour and a half lesson, the location team had to come up with a new idea for an estate local to Angel, where we could film. I had one in mind, but as I was less familiar with the area than the other locations we want to film in, I went to take pictures and check it out:

The location works well, with an Urban feel despite it being relatively close to the City of London. It has free access into the structures, and a green space we can film in. It also has low walls in some parts, where our performer can sit to perform - although this must be taken into consideration for the risk assessment.