Set Design meeting

 How did the meeting go?

We had our design meeting on Monday the 11th of October. In general, the meeting went quite well with no major concerns or impossibilities brought up. We talked about the general design of the set and the mood/ atmosphere we wanted to create. We told the set designer, Fran, about our jazz club set first. We talked about how we wanted the backdrop to be black with classic red show curtains drooped across it to have the iconic 1920's jazz image. In addition to this, we showed her some images we got from Pinterest of stereotypical Jazz club walls that had lots of framed posters, signatures and sings hung up against a brick wall or darker colours e.g. blue, dark red. Fran also liked our idea of the 4 tables with white cloth with bottles or classes as audience members watch the band perform as it would create a nice classy atmosphere. Furthermore, Fran pointed out to us we won't need to worry about painting the set as most of the colour will come from the smoke/ haze carrying the colours of the lighting across the set. We then discussed our more detailed and clattered set- the garage. After we showed Luke and Fran some photos of the kind of look we were going for, they recommended we draw some ideas of the amount of props we want on set such as boxes, bottles, skateboards etc... to get an idea of how much stuff we would need to borrow, purchase or bring from home. Fran also came up with the idea of having sound proof foam on the garage wall instead of painting a brick layer over the top to save us time whilst keeping the mediocre, novice look of the bands rehearsal room. My group agreed to generate a list of the exact amount of props we will need before the next time we meet her and to get a specific image we would like her to replicate and expand on. In general, Fran really liked the ideas of a jazz club and converted band room as it is only 2 sets and both create very different performance atmospheres for the music video.