Idea Formation

When discussing our idea, we decided that we wanted a clearer idea of three elements and ensure that they all link closely by making the ideas and themes more basic.

Element 1

- Water -

Costume : The white plenty of fabric dress which links into the majority of the set.
Makeup + Hair : She will be wearing natural looking makeup and her hair down so that it can be blown by a fan to add to the effect of her being underwater and her hair flowing to the movement of the water.
Props : We wont use any props in this set to give the effect of water and to make sure that there are no distractions to take a way from the effect that she is suspended in water.
Lighting : Clear soft blues to create the effect of water

In this element the female singer will be the only one on set and she will be moving slowly to the beat of the music and lip synching to the song. We will use effects in post production to make it look like she is underwater using filters etc. She will be suspended in the studio by wires so that her feet can hang to make it look more realistic that she is floating in water.

Element 2 

- Woods -

Costume : She will be wearing the same dress that she is in the water sequence which will be attached to the branches of the trees around her to submerge her into the set.
Makeup + Hair : Again she will have natural looking makeup with her hair down and natural.
Props : there will be no props in this element so that the focus is all on the artist.
Lighting : We want very soft natural lighting to create a pure effect to go with the pure, natural effects of the water sequence.

In this element the female singer will be amongst her dress in the woods lip synching whilst exploring her surroundings to create the dream effect that we were going for, that it is an unknown environment.

Element 3

- Mixed Sets with UV -

This is a more recent idea that our group has decided on. We wanted a contrasting element to our previous idea to continue the surreal natural dream theme that we initially based our idea around. We didn't want to use the Alice in Wonderland theme that we thought of before because we thought it was quite cliche. We thought that we could use lighting and projection effects as that is what we started with as an idea in our group. We also thing that the amount of fabric in the dress can be utilised when thinking about colours and effects in projections and lighting. We wanted a kind of synthetic theme to this element to contrast to the previous elements.

For the possible editing and camera techniques which we could use, we were thinking of using the effect where the film is played forward back then forward to the beats of the song.

Costume : Same dress as have used throughout as can use fabric to play with lighting effects.
Makeup + Hair : We think that we could use bright colours on the face makeup which will glow in UV light. As the other elements are all in sunlight, we want to lighting for this theme to be dark with bright UV colours.
Props : We were thinking of using just small things like confetti which will create nice effects when glowing with UV light. We also were thinking of using smokey effects which could glow to the UV lighting.

We've added this element as we also think that the visuals match the kind of sounds of the song and it will also create a more exciting image for the artist which will help aim it at the target audience of this genre of music. The visuals of this element also sort of represent the kind of environments that this kind of music would be played at.