This week we had a dissuasion with Dan who is the set builder and lighting director. With him we would discuss what we have planned and weather it would be possible to carry out. Our first concern was the bird cage. We were talking about all the different options that we have on how we can get a human sized bird cage. One option was to see if we could rent one out from a party company but this would coast loads of money which we want to try and avoid spending. The second option was to build one. Dan said that this is possible and easy to do with no coast so we decided on building one ourselves. Together we discussed what the bird cage would look like. One of the media teachers alex said she had a bird cage lamp shade that we could use so I asked her to bring it in for our meeting with Dan. The bird cage that we got was white and had too much detail on it to build. We thought that we would keep it simple and have a 6 walled cage but it won't have a top because it was not needed and because of the swing that is going inside we could not have it. We then decided what colour to have it. I thought that it should be cream because that is how I imagined it like but the other girls thought it would be good if it were a classic bronze colour. In the end we decided that it would be best to have it as the bronze colour because it looked more like it should be indoors. The bird cage had been built before the half term so in the last couple days of half term all three of us got our overalls and a paint brush and painted them.
The other large prop that we had was a swing. We all imagined it to be a garden sing with vines and flowers on it. He said that we will build the swing no problem but we would have to get the things to decorate it with which was no problem for us.
The instruments were proven to be a trouble. We could get hold of most of them but the harp was quite an issue. We asked around to see it the school would have one that we could borrow but no one played the harp so they didn't have one. The only other option was to hire one. The only offer we could fine was to rent it for 3 months for £150 which was too much for us. It looked as though we wouldn't have a harp in the video but there was a kind of harp that we could have with was a little different to what we wanted but at the end of the day was good as we were going to get so we settled for that.
After discussing all the probes with Dan it was then time to start talking about lighting. Our lighting idea was quite simple. We wanted really simple three point lighting with was warm and gave the feel of being inside of a house. This was simple for him to do. For the other set we wanted to have shadows of bars across them so that it gave the impression of them being inside a birdcage. This didn't present and problems for Dan so our lighting was completely sorted.
We have had a few problems with the cast. We got told that our main actress for our video could not be in it because she in someone else's. We then had to sort this out because she said at the beginning of the term that she is fully committed to our video so we had to talk to a few people and luckily we got her back however there are a few people who now cant be in ours who we cant get back so we will have to re-cast.
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