Country was the most extravagant of all our sets. In order to create the right set up we needed to make the Seward studio feel like the countryside. From our previous research around the country genre we had already decided that the lighting was going to be very bright with a yellow coloured lights. We had previously test shot for this in preparation for the shot. We tested the spotlights as well as combining different orange and yellows lights to create the right feel.
We looked into have a potential green screen of a barn yet we thought this would look too much with all of the props. We used all our available in order to find appropriate props. We managed to get 3 barrels of hay/straw, a sheep, a wheel from a cart, hedges and cow boy hats. We will bring the all the props into school a day before the shot and leave them over night. The barrels are going to be too heavy for just Emily to bring into school so we have arranged to meet before school on the day of the shoot were Olivia and Alicia will help to bring the straw in with the help of the teachers. We have also planned this with the media teachers and caretakers to take that it was allowed.
Costumes were again planned very far in advance so we could planning for any missing parts. Our research showed that in many country videos the artists would wear denim and cowboy boots. We all wore cowboy boots with Alicia and Olivia wearing denim shorts and shirts. Emily wore a dress to distingish her as the main performer.
One of the parts of our country video that we wanted to include was traditional country dancing. The week before the shoot we watched square dancing routines in order to learn the steps. This proved to be very helpful for the dance scenes we included in our music video.
These two videos were are main influences for our set ups
Practising the dancing before the shoot was helpful as it meant we were more prepared on the day and had longer to do some of the harder shots.
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