Setting up the nightclub scene.
We had one major issue in that our male cast
for the dancing scenes didn’t turn up and we had to work around this by
reworking the concept of no sexual identity, meaning that in this club there was
no sexuality everyone did what they wanted. We had to rework this as it was
pretty unclear without any male cast to play the parts, so we ended up just
turning it into a female fetish bondage club with a minor freedom of sexuality
theme. I think the scene with the plastic panels set was the best because the
lighting and actors looked really genuine and it represented the most meaning
throughout our video. The panels were almost like windows into a fantasy world
where there were no rules or labels and no societal condemnations on what people
did, this part for me was the most representational of our traditional idea of
the ‘Grey Room’ taken from Fifty Shades
of Grey’s ‘Red Room’.
Painting the walls black to give it that underground dark nightclub feel.
Our production group worked
efficiently as a team, each swapping roles so everyone put equal effort into
each aspect of the music video but also in learning off each other’s performance
in each role and helping each other to perform each role to the best level. A
lesson that I learnt during the shoot was to, in future, plan ahead for possible
unreliability. In the case of our whole male cast dropping out, if we had
planned for the unexpected we could’ve cast an understudy to step into their
place and perform the roles we needed.
Us filming the girls behind the corrugated plastic.
The only adjustments we may need
to make to our website and album artwork designs are to take the focus of them
off a male homosexual audience because of the issue of our male cast dropping
out, however we still managed to create a similar looking club scene using women
instead of a mix of both genders.
Us making the sofa ready for the Two Man Ray boys.
Merlin painting a panel of the wall black.
In this photo we were testing the camera on screen.
Here Tom was setting up the design for corrugated plastic.
We were well prepared the next morning with all the costumes and props that we
needed and the majority of the cast showing up on time, the two boys in the
morning and the dancers in the afternoon, however only one male member of the
dancers turned up so we had to work around this.
A photo of the corrugated plastic with a bright light behind it.
The two Man Ray boys with the inflatable floor
Two of the dancers by the corrugated plastic. 
Me setting up the sofa and directing the Man Ray boys what to do.
Aside from this we had to dress
the two watchers and make sure they were looking as identical as we could get
them looking, for example making them switch their rings onto the same finger,
take off one of their watches, do their hair the same way, make their suits look
the same etc. After this we could begin setting up the lighting whilst one of us rehearsed the poses
we created for them based on Man Ray photos.
