Props we needed for our video and reasons why

List or props for our music video

.Candles

.Smoke machine

.Strobes (6)

.Mic and Mic stand

.Keyboard and Keyboard stand

.Bass guitar

.Electric guitar

.Mannequin

.Hang able torches

.Camera (2, one for handheld and one for fixed camera)

.Tripod

.Extension cable

.Glass Jugs (5)

. Laser machine

The obvious things that are needed for a music video e.g. a camera, tripod, mics and mic stands and also instruments don’t need to be explained. But there are specific reasons why we need the rest.

Lighting is obviously very important in any music video, but more important in ours than most as were filming in a dark, dirty cellar that without appropriate lighting would be very dark and unclear. For real rock performance effect we used a laser machine, to create bright ultra modern looking feel. This added more depth to our video as the same shot could look different with editing etc but also could look different with different amount of odd lighting; different colours, brighter or darker, whether the lasers were on flashing mode or constant etc. We felt this added an extra dimension to all performance sections of our video, which was the large majority so we didn’t want to bore the audience. Mise-en-scene and the general ambience of the video is extremely important to us so to make it look like a cold evil cellar in the abstract parts, we decided to include old wine making jugs that looked like old alchemy tools. And tea candles that had two purposes, one looking ominous and making audience think about rituals and two helped with the lighting of the dark cellar we were in. To aid in the process of transforming the cellar into this scary looking performance space we used a smoke machine. This made the video look more professional and also helped the idea of our video by increasing amount of smoke throughout video, it shows how were fighting against music corporations and losing the battle as smoke is filling cellar. Originally to create more variety in lighting we had 6 strobe lights that illuminated the faces of the band members making them stand out more in the video. Due to technical difficulties 5 of them broke so we replaced them with hang able torches that illuminated the face of the keyboardist and the lead singer when they were performing.  The mannequin was included by us to aid the narrative and reason for our music video, how bands are losing their identity after being controlled so much by big music corporations. So we decided that in some shots Theo the keyboardist was going to be replaced by a mannequin, this is quite abstract and shocks the audience for a split second making them want to watch on.

Posted By Dominic