Location Scouting

Location Scouting is a pre-production process in used in filmmaking and commerical photography. This is useful because it gives an idea if whether or not a location is suitable and fulfills your needs and requirements. In this task, we were given a set of criteria our photographs had to meet.

The criteria -  

• Places must be fit to theme
• Photographs taken should be taken in places where your chosen genre of music matches
• Create shots you'd imagine would fit to the theme of your chosen genre

Pre-planning and what happened: 

My chosen genre of music that i want to location scout for if i was creating the cover of an album is going to be Pop Music. When i imagine pop music, i think of the sun, beach and attractions. Basically, anywhere which is fun and people relax or go to for a fun time.

With this in mind, i chose to go down to the seafront but not to eye level or right to the beach in order to create and capture images of Adventure Island. I chose this area because of what Adventure Island is, its an amusment park and also somewhere i'd consider people go to be lively and have fun.

Open arriving at the bottom of the highstreet, I went across onto a walkway and lookout area which is home to a lift which takes people all the way up to the top or the bottom where you can cross the road to the beach. I also noticed a long zig zag, or for better words, labyrinth of stairs which i also used to take shots of.

Pictures of plants and foliage were also taken with the idea of a having a fresh and summery feel to it, in images such as this, I could imagine in the foreground being bold and blocky text standing out from all the green reading off the albums title and such.

Contact Sheet: 

This contact sheet features every picture I took which is relevant to the location scouting I did.

My favourite photographs:

For this part, I have nailed down my photoshoot into three favourite photographs i'd replicate if required to do so by a client in order to make a pop album cover. The pictures chosen take into account everything from where text placement would be and overall quality and perspective of the picture.

The pictures taken can also be taken in different perspectives, creating another photoshoot where I can then pick and nail down what images i'd like to take and use.

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 Photographs taken in 4608 x 3456