Props List

White bed sheets

Why? - We need lots of white bed sheets to cover the studio we will be filming in to make it look like a medial asylum.

Pills

Why? - We need lots of different shaped and colour pills to emphasise the life of someone stuck in an institution and to signify how mental patients are pacified.

Straight Jacket

Why? - We want to portray that the actor is a danger to himself therefore by showing that his arms and movement is constricted it connotes this.

Guitar/Base/Drums/Microphone

Why? - Because its a music video and we decided to use a diverse range of instruments to make our video more unique and unpredictable. 

Glass Box/Stool

Why? - We need a stool to put the glass box on as in the scene with the different colour rooms it will stand in the centre of the room and we will need a stool to place it at body height so we can put an object in the box to connote the patient being trapped inside a box.

Colour Filters

Why? - We need to portray that the patient is in multiple different rooms, so by using colour filters the different coloured rooms will show that the patient is in a different place at a different time, however all the rooms look the same which emphasises the boring and uneventful life of a patient in a mental institution.

Medical Tool

Why? - Medical tools will be seen in the room to further emphasise the asylum life to the audience.

Computer Screen/VCR Machine

Why? - We were able to obtain old computer screen monitors to smash as well as a VCR machine to smash when the patient gets angry in the asylum.

Wooden Chair

Why? - The patient will be sitting in the white room in their straight jacket an later on in the video the patient will smash the chair.

Baseball Bat

Why? - Baseball bat for the patient to smash the computer screen and VCR machine.

Most of these props can be found at home such as the chair and musical instruments however some need to be sourced elsewhere. In the special case of the glass box, it is coincidental that one of the group members has something similar at home, therefore obtaining it  would not be as challenging as it would seem.

Straight Jacket - None of us has this costume at home therefore we have to buy it online. Amazon would probably be the easiest and cheapest way to get it.

Medical Tools - Since one of the locations of the music video is in the studio room of our school, we will borrow medical equipment from the science department

Colour Filters - This can be acquired when we enquire for the camera equipment