Request for Copyright Permission

We requested for copyright permission to use the Skrillex song 'Stranger'. This is the email showing our request:

Meeting with lighting supervisor/ Change of Idea

Meeting with the Lighting Supervisor 

We spoke to George Smith - the man helping us with music videos - and with his help, and the help of Matt, Luke and Phil, we changed our idea of having a throne in a forest set in the studio with a grungy tribal theme to using projections of a narrative we will film in the studio, and we will project this narrative onto the trees of a forest.

•          Our video needs more depth to it - the idea came across as too bland and flat. Also, the set would look too flat and on the screen the idea of a forest would not come across properly as there would be no depth of field in the studio.
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• ·         We are planning on using breakup gobos in our video so that we get the images and shapes of forest/woods in it.
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• ·         Our group needs to collect up tonnes of leaves and dry them out so that that they will be ready for shoot day.
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• ·         We plan on having the girls chasing Gustavo through the studio, then projecting it across different trees so that we get this image of someone running across trees
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• ·         The main word that was brought up in discussion about the video was the word "trippy" - we are looking to have the video present the people as all very dystopian  and dysfunctional.
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• ·         An inspiration we took for the video was the story of 'Lord of The Flies'
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• ·         The video is going to be really bland therefore we are looking to add some colour to the video - perhaps some blood shed from the guy as the girls capture him?
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• ·         We like the idea that the characters are all from an urban environment therefore they are the tribes from the city - they will be wearing suites and formal clothes to add to this idea strand
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• ·         Rather than having a green screen in the studio, we are going to have a blue screen - the green leaves and shrubbery would cancel out the green screen and it would not show up in the video
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• ·         The new idea is to: film everything in the studio, but have the entire background black so that later it would look better. We then plan on projecting everything from the studio onto different sections of the forest and creating this other-worldly effect by having people being projected onto trees. It would also benefit from having the studio all black 

Props and Costumes List

COSTUMES

WHAT WE ARE GETTING:

• Bethany- White Dress

• Dancers- white crop top and skirt

• Ezra- long white robe

PROPS

WHAT WE NEED FROM SCHOOL:

• Gold, yellow, red and orange spray paint to spray clothing.

• Black, Gold, yellow, red and orange face paint for skin

• Big kitchen knife X2

• Bows and arrows X4

Costume/Makeup

The Costume Ideas

For the costumes I drew a rough sketch of what they would sort of look like (image shown below):

The drawing to the far left is a rough sketch of what we want Bethany (the leader) to wear- an off-the-shoulder crop top and a straw like mid-length skirt. We also want Bethany to have a big headdress of some sort, maybe with feathers.

The drawing to the far right is a rough sketch of what we want the four girl dancers to wear- an haulter neck crop top with tassels and 3/4 length trousers with tassels at the bottom of the trousers. We want the dancers to have headdresses also, but small one around the head with a few feathers.

The drawing to the bottom right is what Gustavo is going to be wearing during the shoot. He's going to be wearing a white shirt, to portray that he is clean and pure, before he gets "tribal-ified" and he'll also be wearing 3/4 length brown/black just over the knee shorts.

This dress was what Liv found with Loz, if we do not find the right costume, we have this as back up for the dancers.

Below there are images that are bright coloured tribal patterns- the only problem with having bright coloured clothing is the fact that we are basing around 'I fink u freeky' by Die Antwoord.

Some Headdresses for Bethany (LEADER):

Some Headdresses for the four dancers:

Lauren emailed the cast about their costume sizes so that we can start now ordering what we would need to order for them, instead of leaving this till last minute.

She also asked about a rehearsal for the whole cast to get together, so that we can make sure that the dancers know the dance off-by-heart and so that Gustavo and Bethany know what they are going to be doing on the day of the shoot.

Tribal Make-up ideas