Lighting Plans: George

George is a lighting expert who has been working with the school production for many years. He came in and talked us through all kinds of lighting available to us for the music video shoot. He showed us many kind of different lightings which is very essential for me as I have very limited knowledge about lighting and sets, making this very beneficial for me and my group.

Firstly George introduced us to Atomic 3000 DMX which is a strobe light, 'flash frames' which could make everything looks unusual, slow-motion and robotic.

Another lighting we were introduced to was thee UV lighting Cannon which works nicely with UV paint or a plain white shirt which brings out the glow in the dark effect. 

ETC Force Four Junior is a powerful spotlight which can be adjusted in sizes, strengths and shapes. The colour of the light can also be modified by changing the gel sheets in front of the light beam. 

Thomas 4 Cyc Light is used to accompany green screen and infinity screen as it rids all the shadows which may interfere with the editing process in the background. It has 4 individual lights each with 4000 Watts meaning these lights must be handle by professionals with care otherwise it may results in fatal incident. 

Galaxia LED Soft-light is a fade light which can be used to make the singers stand-out as well as eliminating the unwanted shadows during close-ups. The temperature of the light can also be modified in order to fit in with the mood of the scene. 

JTE Pixelline 1044 is are long fixed LED lights which can be modified to make different colours, effects, flashes and etc. These lights can be used both visually in set as an element in the scene or can be used outside the set as light effects in order to create weird flashes and effects.

Sharpy Wash 330 is a spotlight beams which can be modified into different colours, sizes and beats. It can also be used as sky beams in concerts.

Lastly, Martin Mac 700 can be fixated to ceilings which can be modified into any effects, shapes or sizes. It can also create illusions on the walls. 

Audience Profiling Video

Here we went around school and boarding houses in order to get feedback for our music video ideas. We play them the track while explaining our idea for the music video, then 2 questions were asked: 'what do you think of the track?' and 'what do you think about our music video idea?'

Beatophone: Research

Here we carried out a further research into the prop lists, castings, mise-en-scene as well as costumes for our music video.

Beatophone: Inspirations

Here are a few videos which is quite similar to our idea for our music video:

Here is a music video created by one of our ex-Hurtwood student. This song is similar to ours as it doesn't contain a lot of lyrics as well as having no pop-band elements.

Here is an example of a very famous song. This is similar to our idea as it contains a small orchestra element as well as using a 1920s theme. It also uses dancers in which we were thinking of incorporating in our own music video.

Beatophone: Development

Although I explained earlier that we are scrapping our old idea completely, there are some elements which we will be keeping as we see the connection of those elements in this song. One of the element is the shipping container. We will still be using the shipping container as the dark-photographic room as it would create a stand-out visual as a music video.


Here is a (very) rough sketch of our new idea, consisting of 3 elements.

The first element in the middle is the dark-photographic room. This element is where the main character in the music video is developing a series of pictures in which the context of the photos will be revealed as the music video progresses. The main narrative of this music video is that this character is developing these photos to blackmail another character.

The second element on the top right is where the performance element takes place as well as the third element which is the audience of the performance. In this scene, we were planning on bringing together a jazz band/small orchestra to be used as the performance elements, although we were told that it would be really difficult for us to use a real orchestra or jazz band as not many people nowadays knows how to play these instruments. If we cannot get an orchestra, we will use a dancer instead to represent the band. 

Finally, our third element would be the audience of the orchestra concert, showing a scene of the main character blackmailing one of the crowd (Bottom left of the sketch). This element can be portrayed in many different ways in which we are still developing how this scene will end up looking like. This music video will have no lip-sync at all as there are not a lot of lyrics.

New Idea: Beatophone

Me and my group had come to a conclusion to scrap our old idea completely as we felt we had fully ran out of new idea and element for the song 'Home.' The song also got really boring after a few weeks of listening to it constantly which makes the process of coming up with new ideas for the song even harder than before.

Our group decided to switch our song to a new song called 'Beatophone' by Caravan Palace which was my 3rd initial idea for the music video as the summer holiday work. I chose this song during the summer because i thought it was funky and different from all the usual band pop-music elements which makes the video really stand out and potentially fun to shoot and work with.

Dance for Performance Element