Costume Ideas.

When looking into costume ideas, I came across this selection of images of people dressed in reflective light outfits which have created a shimmery and interesting effect of them they have then used an online tool which although I don't know it's name, I know it is available on the 'talk talk' bright dancing website. This technique of creating images and reflective costumes out of light strands could be extremely beneficial to our video and later in the process of doing research I will look into the technical side of this technique.

Neon Attachments

Another way of making the dancers in our video stand out with light is to attach neon glow sticks to individual out fits thus creating a impact which when dancing, makes the dancers look as if they are not there but that the results of the light are creating a dancing effect. In the image below on the right, an example of this particular costume design is shown on children.

Post filming / editing effects
Another alternative is to dress the dancers in black alongside the set and to wait to add in lighting effects until after filming. there would be practical issues however that may prevent us doing this, such as the concern that if we do not complete the filming on schedule we may not have enough time to edit the way we would of initially liked too. However using a combination of all three processes, set effects/ dressing, costume design and editing(through heightening and enhancement of neon colouring) we could create the effect we intended.

Video Presentation

This is the presentation we made for our video, I added in some of the demographic work I research for my own blog;

https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B6s132hCeanGMzE2YmE5N2YtOGIxYy00Mjk3LWEyYzctYjcxYjY5NTk3Mjg5&hl=en

'White Night' Projection Videos.

The following video attachments are from the event 'White Night' and are of projected animations that may be of interest to my group when we come to organising the slideshow of images.

Videos:

Projections.

I have been looking into the idea of projections as an ulterior option to filming on the set of an old building due to practical issues and the trouble that has arouse from trying to find an appropriate location. I thought that because of the demographic of our band 'Bloc Party' and the aggressive/ scary tone to the song 'Ares' we should create a spooky mood to our video. I came up with the idea of projections and have made progress on this. Originally I thought of taking photos of various destinations, such as Hellingly Hospital and the abandoned warehouses in Lewes (Places we were initially hoping to film)and making acetate prints of the images, then, using the copies we could project them onto a white sheet during the filming of our video as to incorporate the same effects we wanted to have to start with.
White Night
On Saturday the 25Th of October I went to the 'White Night' celebrations where I saw some examples of projections on to buildings which I think looked particularly effective, in the following post I have put some short clips I took on my phone of the event which may be useful to our video. I asked the person who made the video how they designed it and they told me that they combined all the images on to a disk then edited them together so they processed at fast speeds and that this way of creating the slide show was a more reliable and time effective process then the filming of the exchanges of the acetates.

Kylie Minouge- I believe in you.

Kylie Minogue "I believe in you" Video URL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dZSIM3W7Tc
In the video for Kylie Minogue's single 'I believe in you' (URL above). I think the prop design and mise en scene of the piece would be interesting to encouperate in to my video. I like the way the light effects have been used to create interesting shape, such as the jellyfish image created out of coils of light strobes. Using a storyboard of kylie's video it is clear to see the effectiveness of the neon coloured lights:
Also feautered in this video is my origional idea of manequin style people dressed in lights dancing this also looks particularly effective and creates a techno/ dance feel to the video and a querky edge to the song. In contrast to my groups song which is angry and violent this song is light and airy this is shown through the use of colour (blues and purples) so we would have to consider colour changes and mise en scene.

Initial brainstorming of ideas for the video

Mise-en-scene:

Costume and make-up:

The costume we have discussed including in our video is quite simplistic visually although technically it will have some complex aspects to it. There are two main sections to our video the first being a narrative style sequence where a man is running through a desolate building searching or running from something and the other is of a group of dancers performing a routine. In the first section of video the man who is running will be topless as to heighten the intensity of the performance so the costume is limited to just a simple choice of trousers. However I think the routine would benefit from some facial make up design as to create a more forbidding atmosphere to the video. In the second sequence with the dancers we have planned to use UV Glow stix sewn on to dark clothing so when the dancers to their routine against a dark background it will create an interesting light effect similar to the one created in the image to the left of the text:

I think this idea is particularly effective and also in keeping with Bloc Party's dance / club scene.

Set and Location:

For the video two different locations will be needed also and our original ideas for these are as follows: Initially we had planned to film the running section in Hellingly, a closed down phychiatric ward as we thought this would create a well suited spooky feel to the video.

Looking at the image to the left sourced from the website , 'www.cpluv.com' it is obvious that this location would be ideal for the style of video we are trying to achieve, however there would be some issues with using it as some parts are restricted and the extreme dilapidation of the building could be a safety risk. I have found an alternative which is in Lewes near the college which would be more assessable and possibly more of an appropriate location. Although they will not be as eery with the use of lighting effects, the same outcome could be achieved. I have an idea however as a back up to take advantage of the location if we have to use the warehouse, which is to take images like the ones below(images sourced from http://www.tailcoat.com/ )and copy them to assatate and project them throughout the building. The images could be intensified following the beat of the music this would create an effect as if the images were chasing the runner rather then an actual person.

Props:

The props will be limited as most of the focas will be on set, location and costume, however If we have to use the warehouse as our filming set we will probably have to find some old wood and broken materials to increase the run-down look on the video.

Ares - Bloc Party

Ares Lyrics
War war war war I want to declare a war
My fist breaks your porcelain nose
There are other things that hands can do
To create or to destroy, mini gods and goddesses
First person singular
Set it set it set it off
War war war war
Keep the past the future is ours
Man made natural disaster
Blocking out all of the sun
Supermen and mitsi turbo
Speed agility
super strength
Wipe the blood of those knuckles
Spark it give me two’s on that
War war war war
I want to declare a war
True say blud that when we ride
We don’t stop for nobody
The Africans and the Bengalis
He knows all the rude boys
Reebok Nike Adidas Puma
“Rer rer rer, this shit is long”
It’s all getting, quite highly charged
Get out the way, or get fucked up
We dance to the sound of sirens
We dance to the sound
And to think, that these hands
Could work wonders, with their touch
Listening, to dead singers, in your room
In 98
We dance to the sound of sirens
We dance to the sound

Why I have chosen this song
These are the lyrics to Bloc Party's 'Ares'. This song has no current music video, however provides strong themes that could be translated in to an accessable format. A prodominant sence of rebellion and an ongoing protest dipicts the anger and violence that accompanies the song. Bloc Party also already have a defined audience, which makes it easier to target the video appropriatly.