Set design

Today during the lesson me and Teodora worked were hard on finishing our "set design" deciding upon what colours and lighting we wanted to use in our set in the studio. So we decided that we wanted natural lighting and have a key light that gives a theatrical light, the light is coming from a high angle straight on the band performing. And we are also using a back light that we want to be light and gentle so we can still see the background behind the band. The colours that we are using are metal grey and a darker blue to get the right feel that the band are in a junk yard and we might also use a smashed car behind the band playing which we are trying to get in a bright colour like red to make it really stand out in the background, this is to help the audience understand our idea and get the preferred reading that we as a group are hoping for the audience to understand.

Here is a picture of the set that we designed and here we can see more clearly what our idea looks like;

We also got feedback from Dan, the man who handles the lighting and so on and he said;
That he thought we should go with the idea of doing a more natural lighting to make it look like daylight and that we are actually recreating the scrap yard that we are filming the narrative. So instead of doing a performance based lighting we are trying to get a more natural feel to it though we're still using a back and a key light in the shot. Dan also agreed on the choice of colours; metal grey and darker blue and thought that the idea of getting a bright colour on the vehicle in the background would fit really well.These type of techniques will help the audience to believe in the location and therefore also get more involved in the performance and the possibly the band.

Here's the feedback from Dan; me asking the questions and Teodora filming