Set/Lighting Designs and Feedback

After having completed our set design, we talked to a lighting designer about our lighting ideas in order to get feedback on the different possibilities. We started by explaining our concept of the video, explaining how the light would link into that. So we went from having different colourful lights in the corners, which tint the room, and having lighting set up to light the stage, to some a lot more interesting lighting. After the talk we decided to extend the electric feel passage of the video, which then affected the lighting. So we decided to keep the disco ball, reflecting different colour lights and we also decided to keep the naturalistic lighting at the beginning. 

One idea which someone had was to drill holes through the floor and have colourful beams coming from below, which was the vetoed since that would make the infra structure weaker, and could therefore provide a health and safety issue. We have now decided to do the same thing, but drill holes through the walls and have the lights come from the wall. This should make the lighting a lot more interesting once our protagonist has the 'electric feel'. We will also have a UV lighting since we will paint the dancers in UV paint and that gives the whole party a more interesting touch.  

In terms of the set design, we aren't changing a lot, but we were told that we had to start thinking about making the house look more like someone's parent's house, as the party is a house party. So we started thinking about walls, windows, floors and furniture. We now need to start looking for more old fashioned furniture in order to make the starting set more naturalistic. 

So overall we did not have that much change to our plans, except for little adjustments to make it all look more naturalistic and realistic. I like our new lighting concept, since I think that it will make the video more interesting overall.