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.
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