Interior Ideas

by Emma

From studying the film Factory Girl and books/pictures about the 60s era, we have to be very careful about how we put together each of the main scenes, due to the Retrospective nature of our music video.



Here are a few ideas we gathered for the main locations of set:

Band concert


There is a scene in the film where Billy Quinn (the musician) walks onto a stage ready to perform on a waiting stage. But because it is a side shot of the stage, it is unclear to work out the set-up and look of it.

However, we decided to study old pictures and videos of band performances of the 60s a.k.a The early Beatles and Mama and the Papas performances to get a jist of how it should be designed. The main inspiration was this image of Edie dancing in front of an unknown act. The set-up of the band was simple yet stylised.









We decided to film our band performance in a old school room at our college because back in those days, musicians would be playing in small auditoriums or even village and town halls and theatres, so the interior wouldn't be overly extravagent unlike today's concert arenas. The old school room used to be a small chapel/church so the room had very old-fashioned fittings which suited the era of our video. We decided to set up the band in a specific silouhette of singer at the front, the bassist and guitarist on the left and right in the centre and the drummist at the back, to make everything look parralel. Although we did not have a stage and not many extras to film with, we made up for this by cramming the audience as tightly together and creating an illusion of a large audience with front and back shots. We also used front and key lights that would illuminate the band members and give a professional look to the shot. We went for a minimalistic set to firstly suit the theme of the song and to clash the two worlds of Andy Warhol and the Musician (a colourful, busy, plastic environment v.s a more dull, natural, folky environment).


The Factory
We know, as a group, that the Andy Warhol Factory is going to be the hardest challenge of the video progress, because of the amount of detail that has to go into the replication of it. For over two months now, we have been studying the film and footage of the real factory itself, to try and think how it would be set out, what props are required, and what props we need to make.

Photos of the Real Factory





Photos of the Film Version's Factory







And heres a funny spoof of the Factory I found...



Our plans for the Factory is to hire a large studio room at a local theatre. The room has a stage and a bar area, and has wooden flooring, lighting rigs and projection appliances. We have decided to split the studio into several parts with a photoshoot section with a large white screen and lights, a section in the middle where the main action will take place (e.g. sofa with a coffee table scattered in bottles and fruit and where most of the extras will situate.) We plan to cover the walls in silver tin foil, have paintings and sculptures scattered everwhere and propped up against walls, and just random objects such as traffic cones sprayed silver, chairs, ladders, cameras and tripods and paint and brushes just scattered around to create this busy, crazy atmosphere. The key element is silver here, because of the colour pallet of the Factory and the space culture of the 60s. Everything is to look futuristic and yet respectively, retrospect.

Props List:
*Art work
-Banana canvas
-Portrait pictures
-Coca cola picture
-Dollar picture
-Transparent print
-Other student's art work
-Silver boxes
-"Alien/UFO" board
*Silver cone
*Air ventilator
*Sofa
*Cans
*Video Cameras and Tripods
*Vintage camera
*Lanterns
*A mixture of tealights and coloured lights
*Silver Props (Marilyn Monroe clock, ornaments, etc.)
*Paint, Brushes, Paper
*Silver and Multicoloured Balloons
As well as:
*Extension cord
*Cd player and cds (for entertainment)
*Costumes, Make-up and Hair appliances (wigs, clips, hair ties, straighteners, etc.)

Edie's Flat

Edie's room in the film changes in correlation to her mindset and her situation. When she is on top of her world, she moves into this spacious, well-lit, elegant, luxurious apartment. But as she looses grasp of her life, her flat becomes dark, messy, and very scabby.

To recreate her room, we are using one of the older flats in Ludlow to film these scenes. The flat consists of one large room, with a kingsize bed, with very old furnishings for the landing and stairsway.

For Happy Edie :

*The Room will be completely neat and tidy

*The Bed will be made

*The curtains will be open and the room well-lit

*Clothing and Accessories stacked by closet area

*Nothing on the floor and no rubbish

*Room light and airy

*Edie's Drawings on the wall

*The room will look spacious and uncluttered

For Depressed Edie:

*The Room will be messy and stuff lying around

*The Bed will be missing sheets and not made

*The curtains will be closed and the room will be dark

*Clothing and possesions will be lying all over the floor and room

*Room is very smoky and dull

*Edie's pictures and photographs knocked off or hanging lopsided

*Room extremely cluttered and disorganised.

Significant Props:

-Drawings and Photographs

-Ashtrays

-Candles

-Mirrors

-Lamps

-Clothes. shoes, bags

- Telephone