the meeting with the set designer

I was very annoyed to have missed this meeting and felt very bad but we all feel very confident about our music video preparations as everyone is working hard and we all know what we want the finished product to look like.

In the meeting the girls presented the idea of our music video to the designer,They went through step by step the individual sets, first was the dressing room:

We will be able to provid a lot of the props for this room luckily. It was decided that we will have cream/white flooring and walls which is what we wanted, this is simplest and what they would have for a dressing room and to make it look more girly we can decorate it with flowers, lights and pinky objects.

First photo shoot:

This is an easy set for props as we just need to same white/creamy flooring and walls as the make up room and then all the little girly props (balloons, flowers and lights) we will be able to easily buy ourselves. 

Café:

Before I left we discussed the idea of having a window as the back of the café to make it look like they are inside but don’t actually being able to see what’s behind the window. To hide that its not actually a window to outside it was decided that there would be curtains hiding most of the glass. There was also talk of using the green screen for this but we need to look into that to see weather it would actually look any good.

Second photo shoot:

They presented the psychedelic set idea and decided it would be best to either paint the back round or project it. After disusing this they felt that we should add in another shoot to make sure its interesting enough. For this we had wanted to do a beach photo shoot like it was in the Dior advert, but it got cut out so we are bringing it back in.

Bar:

It was agreed that using a bistro set would work much better and will fit the mise en scene. They asked for stalls but this is something we might be able to get from the theatre department. The set designer will provide a bar that is great, and we are also getting a checkered floor, which I think will look really good as it was common in cafes. 

Beach photo shoot:

To get changed into a bikini Layla thought it would be a good idea to use some sort of a dressing screen where you could see her silhouette of her taking her clothes of and throwing them over. The set designer has sand for us to use we just need to source a few props like a chair/sun lounger.

There was also talk of dropping the psychedelic shoot which im not too sad about, instead we could try and incorporate the silhouette idea in the between bit of the shoots. The set designer suggested we use a projector, the backdrop from the photo shoot, and we can have a ‘behind the scenes’ look as we will be seeing her body shape from behind the projector. This idea still needs more research and discussing but I think it has potential.

From the sounds of it everyone was happy with how the meeting went, there seems to have been no drastic problems we just need to organize our other photo shoot sets more. A mistake, something we had forgotten to focus on was what Emma would be doing in the bar and café scenes, so we need to go through the choreography for these bits. We will have a screen testing with all the cast to see if it works.