Effects: Within our video, 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.
Here are some videos images we have found that have inspired us to use the neon light effect eithin our video:
Looking at these, we have decided that in the video, a dance routine will be featured. Within this dance, we want the dancers to be wearing a black jumpsuit with neon lights attached to it, just like the image of the jacket above. The dance will be performed in a blacked out area so the emphasis is on the neon lights and the blurred abstract look it will create.
We also some research in to videos that used similar effects to what we would like to do. Although this video has a massive budget and state of the art equipment, there are aspects of it that we would like to bring in to our video. We have a storyboard of the video which we will similarly base our storyboard around.
Projections: We had an idea to print some images on to acetate and project them on to the studio where we will be creating our video. Here are some photos we have taken for inspiration. We think this will intensify the spooky but aggressive image the song portrays.
location/set: Half of our video will be set in a blacked out studio as mentioned before with the dancers and the other half will be set in an abandoned building. One idea is to film in the abandoned mental insitiute in Hellingly. We feel this would be a perfect place to set the weird and spooky image we are trying to portray.
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This is a mood board of Hellingly. This is just the sort of location that we are looking for.
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, you can get an idea of the places we would like to shoot in. If for some reason we cannot go to Hellingly, we can use this as a plan B.
Costumes: As mentioned earlier, the dancers performing their routine will be wearing black jumpsuits with neon lights attched to them. We will have to make these ourselves however i think it will be worth it as i belive the effects it will look really good. The actor being played in the abandoned building 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.
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.
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.
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