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Here is the outside panel for my digipak:

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Here is the inside panel of my digipak:

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Sunday 5 November 2017

R+P Post 26: Set design, locations and props

 LOCATION:

We decided to film our whole music video using our school's professional standard studio complete with a white cyclorama, as it would suit our narrative structure, and allow us to have the highest quality music video possible.

Pros of using the studio:
  • Gives us a large space for us to move around in.
  • Has a minimal back drop, drawing the audience's attention to the performers and the props.
  • Allows us to use different coloured lighting to portray different scenes.
  • We do not have to get permission for filming on location.
We had different lighting set-up in our music video to reflect the different scenes in the narrative.

Our lighting was inspired by Jessie J's Price Tag.

PROPS:

Taking inspiration form Sia's You've changed, we decided to go for the hand-made aesthetic with our props, making them ourselves out of cardboard. We collected lots of cardboard over the course of our project and brought it all together at Jack's house during half term so that we could make the props. As the slot machine was the biggest prop, I made it at my house and brought it into school separately from our other props. The slot machine body was made from cardboard, the arm from a poster tube, and was finally painted by all three of us in school. The props we needed to make were the Mortal Kombat power bars and the "K.O" and "FIGHT!" signs. We made a brief plan for each of these before making them, then we created them with cardboard and painted them with acrylic paints at school.

Our other props included a blanket, a Gameboy, a Sgt Pepper vinyl sleeve, a Singin in the Rain VHS tape, and more. These were used in the scenes where Casey s awake, and not in a dream. The contrast between the two sets of props (the dream props being hand-made) highlight the fact that Casey is in a dream, and that it is all created by her mind. This strengthens the narrative and creates a clear divide between the dream world and the real world, helping the audience to understand the narrative.

SET DESIGN:

Keeping our cardboard aesthetic, we made most of our set design out of cardboard. Our main pieces of set design were the tree, mirror, lamppost, and sofa. The sofa and the mirror were the only items that weren't hand-made, as they would be too difficult to hand make in the time we had and we already had good access to a sofa and mirror anyway. We made the tree and lamppost at Jack's house, along with the props, and used his old swing ball pole as a base for both of them. In order to cover it, we made 2 tubes of cardboard (one for the lamppost and one for the tree) to cover the pole so that they were easily interchangeable depending on what scene we needed to shoot. 

Jack and I making the cover for the lamppost.

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