Lighting:
We want to use a neon light effect to keep a dance feel to our song. Although it is quite an aggressive song the rest of Bloc Party’s music is very much within the dance scene and we have to take aspects of this and incorporate it within our video. We want to make projections on to a black screen and use lighting to make the dancers featured within our video look unreal.
Lighting influence's from videos:
Links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jq42-HY8-g
Projections:
Here are some photos we have taken for inspiration. We think this will intensify the spooky but aggressive image the song portrays.
Below are also images of Hellingly Hospital where, initially we were going to film, however it has now been closed and we are unable to do so. The pictures will however, give us an idea of the style and structure of the ones we will need to take for the projections we will be using.The collaboration of images all share the spooky effect we are trying to achieve, using various techniques including lighting and positioning effects.
We went to the industrial estate in Lewes to try and create some photos to use as back up projections if we couldn’t get to Hellingly. Although the images were not exactly what we wanted for our video, we can now transfer them over to acetate and project them in the shoots with our dancers. We have recently recieved permission from the owners of the warehouses to use the premises as a filming set. We had to go there to speak to the security gaurds before we were granted this and go through certain health, saftey and hazard risks. If we do deside to film here, we will have to contemplate all the potential risks involved and make sure that we have thaught thoroughly through ways to evade any complications and problems that might occour.The following images are ones we took personally that may feature in our video:
If we do deside to use theese images we can use programmes such as Photoshop and Indesign to add effects to them to create our desired appearence, for example highlighting the red tint to them, emphasising the symbolic references to death, blood and danger, or putting them in to a sepia tone, thus creating a more distorted and unusual effect to them. These images provide us with a basic vision in to what we need to do.
Location: Ideally, we want to film in a big, abandoned area. Somewhere with a lot of space that creates the spooky image that we are looking for to match the theme of the song. We will also be filming some scenes in a studio where the dance routine will occur in front of a black backdrop.
Summary Of Key Idea's Sofar
Costumes: The dancers will be wearing black jumpsuits with neon lights attached to them. When they perform their routine in the studio, the neon lights will blur to create an abstract look. When filming in the abandoned area/ building, the man will be wearing trousers but will be topless to enforce the actor’s masculinity, however our choices of trousers will be specific as we have now defined the target audience.
Mise en scene: Within the dance routine, we do not want any other props as we want the main focus to be on the dancers and the abstract look they will create with the lights on their costumes. Within the chase scene in the building, we want to use as many spooky props as possible. Anything that is already within that building we’d like to leave in as it would intensify the spooky image we are trying to create as most of the things left will be decaying.
Narrative: The dance routine within the video is something we wanted to add in as wanted the video to have an abstract element. The actual narrative of the video is about a man being trapped in an abandoned building, sending himself crazy. We will enforce this by projecting weird and distorted images on to the set and using a variety of camera angles
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