Location Research - Clivden National park

We have researched and contacted both the National trust about Clivden gardens and Beckonscot Model village and gained permission to film in both locations. We have visited the model village to help us with our planning and storyboarding but due to lack of time we could not visit Clivden. However the lady we contacted about filming in Clivden gardens kindly sent us photo's of our two choices so we could finally pick an area we would like to film in. Here is what she sent to us and our thoughts and decisions:

 

We knew due to the season area's of Clivden would not have flowers and could look quite bare. In this photo you see 'The Long Garden' which was an option to film in its current condition. Without the flowers that would be there in summer it looked a bit sad so we thought another place with long lasting greenery would probably make better mise-en-scene. 

This area of Clivden gardens particularly took our liking because of the Japanese hut. We thought we could use many of our ideas for the music video in this area and so this is the area we have choosen to film in. We especially like the fact it have surrounding water and a lake because we could think of many ideas were we wanted to use water.

We also got give a map of the Clivden gardens to help us with our planning, the area circled is the area we have planned to film in: