Music Video: The Warehouse

The warehouse location took a lot more time to set-up than we had anticipated, we had a lot of equipment and we needed it to be set-up in a specific way, this was hindered by the lack of power supplies in the warehouse which meant a lot maneuvering wires around and re-positioning lights. We also had to position the band and all of there equipment until we were satisfied with it.

The lighting played a big part of the warehouse scene. Luke created a lighting plan to put the light set-up in a diagram form so that we could follow it when setting up the lights (below).

Lighting plan

This set-up worked very well although it had to be adapted on-set as the two lights at the front of the set up were lighting the background too much and we wanted it to be as dark as possible, we decided to move these lights more to the side of the band, this way all of the lights were set up in a semi-circle formation. This set-up looked really good on the camera and when color graded the shot works really well (see below).

Example of lighting set-up

The original idea was to project two shots on to the band, the back wall and onto the band's equipment. Unfortunately the lights prevented us from doing this as they were too powerful for the light of the projector, this resulted in the light from the projection being diffused, this was a big problem as we really liked the idea of projecting the narrative into the warehouse scene, after playing around with different positions we found that there was a small section of the wall that we could project onto, we positioned the projector behind the band and aimed it so it would shine between two of the lights, this would give us a projection that can be seen, even though the projection isn't the best quality you can make out what is happening in the shot.

My idea of the glitter worked really well in the video as it reflected in the light and the overall impression was very effective, I was very satisfied at the outcome of the glitter shots as they didn't look too 'cheesy', instead they looked quite stylized.

Example of Glitter shots

Cara's idea of adding smoke to the scene worked really well as it added a little mist to the shots and gave a finishing touch to them.

We also filmed one of the final shots in the warehouse, this involved filming Cara and Nathan against a white background, this shot was filmed once all of the bands hot were completed, for this shot we needed to shine a lot of light on the white background.

Cara and Nathan arguing

Even though the warehouse went on for longer than we expected we all worked extremely hard and worked really well together, this is probably one of the most difficult set-ups we have ever attempted but we managed to pull it off.

The warehouse set with the team working