Online Location Scouting

I decided to start looking at which beaches I could realistically use in my music video for the dream phase of the video. I used the well known search engine Google.co.uk with a broad search of beaches in Suffolk. I looked at a couple of sites, the most helpful being suffolktouristguide.com. The site listed a number of beaches such a Lowestof and Southwold. However after looking more closely at the suggested beaches I decided to go for Aldeburgh beach.


Aldeburgh beach and town has a set of features that I wanted to include in my music video, these features are typical to the British rural town but are being seen less and less. Fortunately Aldebrugh still hold onto these idyllic features with its; cottages, brightly painted housing, traditional corner shops and




Although I have visited Aldebrugh a number of times I still wanted to have a look at the location, to decide upon possible areas which would be good to use. Rather than actually visiting the location, which is some distance away, I used Google maps. The reason for using Google maps is because it has the feature of 'street view', where you are actually at street level giving a better representation of the location.

The first shot is of a stretch of beach that has partially been vegetated, this section of beach has a footpath through it linking Aldeburgh to the next beach town, Thorpneas. This location will be useful for my music video as I am planning of having a lot of shots with the couple waking through idilic beach locations. For the same reason the next shot of the beach will also be useful, not only can I have the couple walking on the actual beach, but on the path that runs along it. This means that I will be able to show both aspects of the English beach, the buildings and the actual beach.

 The main town has been relatively untouched by tourism, unlike other British beaches, such as Lowestof. This is why it is so perfect as the setting for my music video. The shops that run along the street are either boutiques or higher market retailers (such as Joules). These stores are broken up with the traditions fish and chip shop, beach cafes/restaurants or housing. I am particularly fond of the housing and think it will give my music video character during the 'dream state'.