Location Shots

We chose to film part of our music video on a secluded backstreet and use this location for a few shots as the setting fitted the piece and worked with the idea we had for part of our video. The lighting in the location did not worked particularly well as we filmed in 
the afternoon, this meant the shots were too bright but we felt if we had filmed later in the day the cameras would not have picked up all the facial expression on our characters. The shots we decided to film in this location were used as part of the performance element but also for the narrative.

As we felt that using a sunset in our video would be fitting as both an establishing shot but also as a literal image since the song is called “When the Sun Goes Down.” As we were on top of a car park we had the best chance of filming the sunset in one continuous shot as there were few cars or pedestrians walking through the shot. 

When we came up with concept for the music video, the main themes appeared to be the news reporter would commentate through the lyrics about Roxanne’s life leading us to film in places, which had a grubby environment. We came across these locations in and around Manchester City Centre that were used for both the performance and narrative of our video.