Locations for the pole Shoot

I needed to fins a location to do my film shoot.  Now that I have decided to shoot my Pole dance idea I needed to find where to shoot, Or where would be best to shoot, with space for a pole and lighting equipment to go. My plan was to look around at possible areas an locations obviously inside, for the pole, and work from there if I could fins a good enough space to use. 

The Mick Jagger Centre

My mum works in a bug Music Centre in Dartford that hold big music events and dance shows and dance groups.  I have shown some images of when I went to have a look at some of the halls, This is actually one of the smallest halls they have there which just proves that I don't need anything bigger than this room. The lights would have been great to use to add some dramatic or soft colours to the background of the film shoot.  I considered this a lot for my normal dance videos but it is a problem when it come to my pole idea because the ceiling is way too hight to put a pole up. So I would not be able to shoot in here for my idea. 

Claire's Pole Fitness Studio's

The second idea for locations for my filming the shoot at Claire's Pole Fitness class studios that she has.  The would seem like a great idea as the studios are huge and have so much space to set up lights and backdrops. The problems with this begin at having to pay to rent the studios at other times than her class sessions.  I usually take longer than I need on shoots and wouldn't want to be paying lots of money to rent the studios for the shoots. But here are some images of the possible studios below:

Crayford Weights & Fitness Studio, Kent

Dance Union Greenhithe, Kent

KTB Studios in Dartford, Kent

These studios look fantastic and would have worked perfectly for my other dance film idea too, there each have tall mirrors and a lot of space around where each pole would be.  I think this is a great idea for the future in this line of work because I would perhaps need a small team of people to help me with getting all of my equipment to the right studio and then set up, and this would all be whilst the model/dancer would be there and it would take too long. So although they look nice, I don't see it possible in the her studios. 

My House

I already had my house and my spare room as the option all along but I wanted to see if I could find somewhere with more space and maybe a higher ceiling so that I could go further back out. But I knew that with a pole it is hard to find locations that had the right places to use.  I though that my room is fine and started to set up backgrounds and test it out.  Like mentioned earlier, I used to do pole fitness myself and have already got my own pole, so I have set that up in the spare room which is also my studio room too, and here is what it looks like.