Set Design

As further preparation, myself and Rachel got together outside of class to have meeting about set design. We obviously had some preliminary  thoughts and posted on our blogs about this but we were recommended to make hand-draw set design plans. With these we can then demonstrate our thoughts without having to use pictures from another bands work. Also, these will be very useful in the days preceding the shoot as we can show them to the set builders to give them a firm idea of what we want. Of course, these designs may develop and change in between that time, meaning we will alter the plans accordingly. We decided we would make set plans for the two key sets in our video, having the minimalist, infinity background as a starting set and then the final image with added design features such as lighting rigs, smoke and amplifiers.

(Starting)

 (Final)

Admittedly, on paper these two sets don't look vastly different. However this will not be the case on shoot day, especially considering that the infinity background is taken away and swapped for a dark coloured 'box' set in which the band will perform. When combining this with the lighting the two sets will polarize visually, and will therefore be the main communicator in the commercialism/facade element of the video.