Added by spurious1 on 20/05/2008
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This was commissioned as part of the excellent but sadly defunct 4MinuteWonders scheme, which I guess Radar is in part replicating.
Shot on 35mm, believe it or not, in Edinburgh and London.
To create the sunhead we used an actual spherical mask painted with the glass-bead loaded white paint they use for road-markings. We attached a light to the camera which bounced of a half-silvered mirror set ata 45 degree angle so that the light actually travelled along the axis of the lens, allowing maximum burn-out upon reflection.
This brilliant but technically tricky solution was braved by brilliant DoP Brett Turnbull, with whom I also made The Veils video "Lavinia"
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I've watched this video twice now and it both confuses and scares me. I guess that's a result.
Le Black Dog
www.leblackdog.co.uk
Hmmm... a tricky one. I'd be inclined to use a combination of dressing them in a greenscreen body-stocking and using a locked-off (or tracked but more painful in post) shot of the empty background to use to replace their body. Get a performer who's a dancer so they can move up and down and make the head seem to magically float?
If the head is to be put down on a surface (i.e. a table) then I guess you can start sawing holes in things and/or using mirrors to make it seem there's no body.
A tricky one on a low budget though - how much have you got to spend?
GB
I loooove this, the video is so much better than the song:) Though that is good too! Excellent concept, really well executed and a nifty technical solution...I'm having a bit of a problem regarding a "head shot" myself...How would you go about filming a character who is only a head? I mean, not a prop person, but a real actor, seemingly consisting of just a head and a neck...? Any ideas?
Ina Steinnes
Director / Producer
Thanks! Technically a nightmare but fun to do and exactly the kind of work I want to be doing... best get going with some more treatments...
Gavin Boyter
Writer / Director
Cool video. The whole sunhead concept was awesome.