Research into the Scientist's Element and Helping the Transition

We have been doing research and hae been deliberating on how to make the transition between the 1920's jazz club and the futuristic club smoother and to make everything more obvious instead of being a confusing mess. It is there to be an aid to the mad scientist who is obviously fiddling with something, and then presses a button, and transports everyone into the future. Click here to get to our idea.

As an aid to help us come up with some ideas for the transition, Luke referred us to several music videos by Public Service Broadcasting.

The transition would ideally be composited out of something generating electricity, or having electricity running through it; this could be a series of lightbulbs, some kind of machine working, or wires. Anything that will help the jump from the 1920's to the future.

At first we did some research into valve museums, as even though they don't have electricity running through them, they depict something old and obviously transport water or air from one end to the other. We would then shoot the valves, and later in post-production wrap the videos of the dancers around them. However, we couldn't find a valve museum in reach, and we don't have the budget to go all the way there for such a small element of our music video. Therefore we scrapped the idea.

Instead of using the valve museum we looked into many different things that we could use as a transitioning aid. In a talk we had with the set designers, their advice was that we could make use of an old guitar amp valve, or simply using large lights or several small lightbulbs with evident wires that we could make flicker, and that could eventually then create the effect of either turning on or off completely and therefore having completely changed the transition.

Another idea we got was using a plasma sphere because that is an element that shows obvious signs of electricity, and may fit in quite well with the mad scientist element. However, when talking to the set designers and Luke it turned out that it would be very cliché and perhaps not as interesting as we originally anticipated. Therfore we scrapped the idea.

We went back to the set designers and decided that the four old computers that we have gotten for the music video could be used to show videos of the dancers and band earlier on in the day, and use these to form the transition. We could use this in combination with the mass of wires and also the light bulbs.