Notes on the film - 'Factory Girl' by Director George Hickenlooper

By Kat.

Sitting down as a group, we watched the film from 2006, starring Sienna Miller as famous 60's icon Edie Sedwick who in 1965 dropped out of her artschool to move to New York, as an aspiring artist and model she attended many exhibitions at which young celebrity pop artist Andy Warhol (portrayed by Guy Pearce) is also attending.With a major promise of making Edie the star she always aspired to be, by comming to Warhol's Factory (Hence the title) to work for him as an actor, model and be his muse, Edie Sedwick was thrown into a whole different side of society, slowly losing her grip on reality due to her major use of heroin and her addiction to being the 'it' girl of the time. She ends up bankrupt, and must face the demons of her past with her fathers abuse and try to take her future into her own hands - little does it help that Warhol replaces Edie soon after she starts seeing folk musician Billy Quinn (Who is supposedly portraying Bob Dylan who had a brief relationship with Sedwick)

This is the official 2006 trailer for the film 'Factory Girl'


These are notes on effects, costume & make up, angles, camera positioning and general ideas which may be well suited or worth considering for our music video.

• Opening shot of Edie running the streets of New York in tears, camera moves same pace as from another persons perspective. Camera catches all of Edie's movement including behind cars, as it films through the windows.


• A controversial "nerdy" look- Shirt tucked into trousers, and a jacket, many brown tones and colours.


• Andy Warhol was a Catholic and goes confessing his sins, which to others seem like minor issues for example about clothes.


• Over shoulder shot of Edie getting ready to attend an exhibition in New York, brown flat, large framed mirro, her hair done up in a bun, she smokes.


• Some attenders of the exhibition are very upper class looking and smug.
  Edie makes her entrance and is immediately surrounded by male attenders wanting to light her cigarette, take photos and film her.
  Split screen shots.


• Andy Warhol wears a black suit, simple pattern shirt, scarf, black thick framed sunglasses and silver/white hair (very well tended to)


• A long shot of Warhol getting interviewed with his famous Elvis pop art print in the background (black and white)


• The factory has tinsel on the walls and floors, wall's are painted white, pieces or artwork, finished and unfinished haging and lying on floors.


• "The factory is for people who are different" - Andy Warhol


• Split screen shots - one half is strong colour, other is bold black and white, the black and white side resembles more serious issues.


• Black and white flashbacks (sinister underlying tone)


• Fur coats and big earrings


• Edie's own artwork i watercolour based and charcoal drawings of peopole and animals.


• Andy Warhol compares Edie and icon Marilyn Monroe, as Monroe was the 'it' girl, comparing the two would be because Warhol had such a strong feeling about his new muse Edie.


• Handheld camera shots of Edie and Warhol in the park - poor quality.


• Layered shot of Warhol and his artwork.


• Group shot, all the Factory people are sat on a couch in the Factory - smoking


• Edie is free of inabitations and gets undressed in public (A restaurant)
  The handheld camera is fuzzy almost out of focus.


• Edie moves to a larger flat which she can not afford (The false success)


• Studio/photoshoot shots of Edie doing professional modelling and it becomes a laugh with Warhol, it symbolises their close relationship.


• Edie's make up: Black soft pencil liner above eyelids, false lashes, fake beauty mark.


• Warhol's party: Balloons, colour, lights, tinsel.


• Edie takes her first heroin shot, music and picture speeds up as Edie makes a fool of herself.


• The TV screen shots are black and white - with an underlying soft blue tone.


• "Billy" encourages Edie to pursue her own dreams and to work more on her own artwork.


• Edie steals sun glasses at a garage sale - she doesn't get paid by Warhol


• Her banker says Edie is going bankrupt.


• Edie denies any knowledge about "Billy" and stands back once confronted with a news article with both of the pictured together.


• After the revelation that Edie is having relations to "Billy" Warhol expresses jealousy.


• "Whats there (points at chest) is as empty as your friends soup cans" - Billy Quinn


• An ugly side to Warhols artwork appears when Edie is madeto perform in sexual activities against her will due to Warhols jealousy.


• Shot of projector projecting a video onto a white wall, Warhol stands before it and casts a beautiful silhuette.


• Andy Warhol traps Edie by giving her $50 - later he can say "But I already gave you money"


• Billy Quinn confronts Edie a final timetrying to help her out of the Factory enviroment but Edie shouts back "I can't hate him!" Edie picks Warhol over her love.


• Edie get's replaced.


• Edie has lost grip of the situation and in a desperate measure confesses to her banker that she was sexually abused by her dad, banker gives her money which she spends on heroin.


• A shot with handheld camera of Edie walking the streets barefooted, a mix between in and out of focus. This creates a feel of the insanity going on, and how Edie herself is falling apart.


• Edie finds Andy Warhol in a restaurant with his new muse and confronts him, she attacks him.


• Edie goes into rehab


• Andy Warhol says "She used to be really beautiful, but now shes so ugly, why would anyone wanna be ugly?"

Notes on detail within costume:

1. Zebra stripes


2. Giraffe pattern


3. Stripes


4. Dots


5. Fur


6. Green, red, yellow, creamy tones and patterns for women


7. Blue, bleen, black, white, grey, silver, scarfs, long coats, hats for men


8. essential = False lashes