Casting

Set Design

In preparation for the meeting with TA, the set designer, we created a set design in order to help us pitch our idea better. Obviously all these ideas are still up for discussion. 

The Role of a Set Designer

Tomorrow at 3, my group will be meeting with a set designer to discuss our shoot. So today we have been finalizing everything we intend to discuss with the designer and Luke tomorrow. Last week during our meeting about sound, they warned us about how much attention to detail we will need to include on our designs. So since then we have been focusing on each image of all of our props, and now we know where we are getting a few of the props, which is great progress.

It is important to have a set designer as during the pre-production stage my group can be directed to establish the visual feel and specific aesthetic needs of the project. Additionally during the get in and on the day of the shoot we can refer back to our designs to make sure everything is going to plan.

One of the many difficulties my group might face is by following a Wes Anderson colour palette, so we will need to discuss this tomorrow about these complications.

Production Date

Jason has just told us that our production date is Monday 24th November. We will need to pass this information onto the band members, to make sure of their availability.

Set and Props Presentation

Blogging the Animatics

After creating the storyboard, we shot the stills, so we could cut them using the Premiere editing software. We then cut the shots in time to the beat of the song Wasted Words. SO now we have a rough idea as to what our music video is going to look like.

Meeting with George

Today we had a meeting with the lighting guy to discuss our idea...

• The first thing we told him was that we have different lengths of light bulbs hanging from the ceiling, his concern was that it was going to create lots of shadows so we will need to include other practical lights to add to the atmosphere. 

• We have also decided we are going to pulsing lights for the first 7 seconds of the video during the opening synths. With this in mind George gave us the advice to not show the audience the band during this 7 seconds
• We were thinking of adding a window at the back of the room to show that it is night time, and also to add to this idea we're in a room of a house. We need to finish our set design to make sure that we are giving the right image across of this room during the dance/ narrative element. The importance of the window will determine the time of day (night) and what sort of lighting is used at this time (house lights, practical lights) 

I was looking at possible images for a window if we do decide this is a good idea.