Pre-Production: Lighting and Colour Research

What colours and lighting would be most suitable for our shoot?

For our shots in the bedroom, we wanted to make sure it was bright but not too bright so that the room looked over exposed. We wanted to create the effect of there being a sort of night light on. This would mean having a small dim light on in shot as well as possibly another light on out of the frame, so that we were still able to see as the light from a small night light would not be enough. The colour scheme in the bedroom which we were going to film in made the room look quite warm. As it would be too difficult to remove a bit of this warmth when filming, we would be able to take some of the red out of the shots in post-production. 

When filming on stage, we know that there will be high quality lighting already available. On the day, we will also have someone there to help us with using the lights. As the stage room is quite dark with black curtains around the stage, we would need quite a lot of bright lighting to make sure we could see all of the performers as well as creating some depth. We also decided to possibly use coloured lighting, to remind the audience that what they are seeing is in a child's imagination.

Pre-Production: Actors Research

Finding actors to represent The Jacques

Finding actors to use to represent The Jacques was luckily fairly easy. We decided to use one of our friend's sister and her friends. Four of our three actors are girls, they would play the parts of the lead singer, the guitarist and the base guitarist and the drummer would be played by a boy. Despite the fact that the entire band is actually male, we didn't feel like using girls would be a problem as had already decided to use children so they we would not be able to easily find lookalikes anyway. Also, as our narrative is based off a child dreaming that they were in the band, using children who do not necessarily look similar to the band would make this day dream perhaps more accurate as we would be representing a fan of the band instead of the band themselves.