Set design

Drummer setup.

We picture the drumming setup to look a little something like this, 5 drummers in a pentagram formation all facing outwards, each with one large tom tom drum each and two snares. As you can see in the sketch above there would be a raised platform kind of thing in the middle where the singer would stand, and there would be some kind of material hanging from the ceiling that the singer could interact with. 

The sketch above demonstrates a bird's eye view of the drummer setup, as you can see we would light this scene from all four corners, turning off different lights in each corner to gain different, chiaroscuro lighting effects. 

This sketch demonstrates another idea of the individual drumming setup of each drummer, this idea would include 5 tom tom drums surrounding the drummer on the floor, with a further two snare drums suspended from the ceiling. 

This sketch shows the basis to our wild drumming setup idea, which was that the drummer would be in a hexagonal coffin like thing, with drums sticking out from all walls. He would be hitting the drums and the walls of the cage in time to the music, cracking the wood and allowing light to filter through the cracks, dirt and grit would shower through these cracks onto the drums to add a visually appealing aspect to this performance element.

photo i took of the boiler room at hurtwood 

hurtwood boiler room

Above is a sketch of what we are aiming to have as the setup for the grimy boys rowdy dance break element of the music video, the sketch is accompanied by photographs that display rusted corrugated iron, which is what we intend to line the walls of the set with to give it a construction site/underground look. We want to make this element look like the boys have broken into somewhere to get rowdy. There is also an image of a man spray painting a wall, as to add a little something extra to this element and to the music video in general we intend to create stencil's for the Band's logo, which will be painted all over the walls by the dancers. As you can see we have positioned two lights in the back corner as to silhouette the dancers, the lighting will be dynamic as the dancers will constantly be moving in front of them, creating a flashing effect which will hopefully add to the chaotic vibe of the music video. We scouted potential locations that were already quite grungy and grimy and thought of the boiler room at hurtwood, I went down there and took some pictures of the pipes, the walls, and the staircase.

This is our third and final set, here we intend to have a grimy looking boy hand painting the band logo on a blank wall. He would be painting with either black paint or oil. We want to use this set and this idea to not only promote the brand of the band but to also use the painting as an opportunity to create some interesting quick cuts in the edit - using extreme close ups on the paint, the fingernails on the wall, the drops of paint on the floor and walls etc.