More Feedback from Luke and Matt

We had a meeting with Luke and Matt to show how our idea has progressed since our last chat.
He and Matt had great ideas and luckily were able to imagine our ideas and the aesthetic we were going for. They were also very helpful in pointing out any logistical flaws in our idea and answering questions we had.

Our various questions, and their solutions, were as follows...

  • Q : Are we able to recreate the pink lighting that we want even if we are in a boarding house room? - We showed them photos of the lighting we meant - taken from the works of photographers Petra Collins and Mayan Toledano - which I have included at the bottom of this post. 
         A : Yes, we are still able to, but they felt that what would look better is a soft white light on the actual characters rather than the pink light being directly on them...we could still have a soft pink light in the actual room but not concentrated on the girls - this will achieve the soft, more sensual feel we want to create - whereas the brighter pink light is too reminiscent of pop videos. 

  • Q : How would we film the couple in a car if they are driving etc?
         A : They didn't really love the car idea, felt it didn't fit with the look and feel of our other strands, also said that finding the right car would be too tricky...therefore we decided we might not use that strand anymore.
  • Q : If you don't think the car idea is feasible, do you think the location of Brighton fits with the overall feel and look of the music video/artist? If so we will probably use shots of the couple in Brighton as our third strand, instead of the car strand.

       A : They liked the idea of Brighton, said that a location gave us lots of options for filming, and it would be possible for us to go up there with some filming equipment on our own one weekend to get the footage.  
We decided therefore to have the third strand of our music video as the couple walking around Brighton.













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