Music Video: Location Reccie - Langley Park

The second location we visited was Langley Park, which we have decided upon as the primary location for filming, mainly due to the variety of possible filming areas we discovered. We visited Langley Park during the second half of the day (at sunset) and all agreed upon filming at a similar time of day in similar weather. Mainly, we wanted to highlight the importance and beauty of nature in this music video, to reflect its importance in Amanda Rogers's image.   

One advantage of filming in Langley over Black Park is that there are less people, meaning it would be easier to focus on our project rather than worrying about the right of the way of the public, which was a challenge in itself when we were filming on the London Underground for our previous task. 



We were fortunate enough to stumble upon this beautiful tree which we thought evoked the theme of "Heartwood" perfectly. This will be one of (if not the key) location for our music video.  Originally, heartwood is the centre of the tree which is not living, however without the support of the heartwood the tree would cease to exist and 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". 

Initially, our group planned to film on a minimum of two locations (one on location and one in a studio or indoor space). However having explored the areas of Black Park and Langley Park we considered filming our concept for the indoor space in one of the two parks to save time.One problem that may arrise though is the lack of variety in locations, which may not be enough to maintain the attention of the viewer- which is something we have yet to decide upon.

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