Exile Vilify video [WIP] - Set pics and looking for ideas

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End is making an entry for the Portal 2 Exile Vilify Music Video Contest.
I'm filming with a Canon HV20.
If you haven't played Portal 2: play it.

My dad's let me use his old office (which is in our basement) as a studio. Surprisingly everything fits. Otherwise so far I've recorded in at least six different fields, behind my mom's apartment, at the top of some hill, at a deer farm (yes, I saw a deer today), at my cousins', on the sides of roads and in the middle of the woods (primarily for timelapses).

Here are two pictures of the main 'set':

Aperture-styled office space:


Panel-styled corner:


The panels were actually fairly cheap to make, and the office space is just my desk and some old officey stuff. The desktop still works so I can plug my laptop into it, but the fax machine is dead. Oh well.

I've also dug up some newspapers from 1986 for realism (the year production of GLaDOS was started).



And yes, even they are references.


Concerning the matters at hand:

The set should be finished by Thursday and I should be able to start filming. I have a timeline for the song and what I want to do, but don't want to give it away. Let's just say that I'm throwing paint around and following minor portions of the Lab Rat comic. It'll extend after the events of Portal.

I want to stay true to both the game and the song (obviously Exile Vilify).

I want to do this by emphasizing Rattman and Chell's individual relationships with GLaDOS. Chell indirectly. Basically, how they both "exile vilify" if you catch my drift.

I may or may not use actors (I have two different friends in mind who would do it). I'm also not an artist. So that's funny too because it revolves around art.


So basically, if anyone has any thoughts/ideas, criticism on the set, ETC. Please let me know.

Yeah.

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good luck!

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good luck!

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That's pretty accurate.

Should try to remove that Dell logo on the back of the moniter and replace with an Aperture logo, just for Aesthetics.

Also, thin, red/grey cushioned spinny chairs are a popular niche in most of the aperture offices I saw.

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Should try to remove that Dell logo on the back of the moniter and replace with an Aperture logo, just for Aesthetics.

Noted. Thanks. :)
I'll most likely end up Googling an Aperture logo, make a sheet of them in different sizes with Paint.NET and print them out.

Also, thin, red/grey cushioned spinny chairs are a popular niche in most of the aperture offices I saw.

There's no chair there yet for this very reason. I haven't been able to find a fitting chair anywhere. There's also no hard drive for the computer, and I'm hoping I'll manage to dig up both together.

Thanks for the CC.

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I'm also looking for ideas for creative things to paint related to the game if anyone has any.

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Well, there's a bunch of great designs not only in the LAB RAT comic, but in game as well.
Rat Man has that sort of messy Pollack style, and a sense of Dali abstractism and surrealism.

If you just throw black and orange paint and draw eyes and robots, that counts too :)

Heck, I'd say I'm quite the connoisseur of art, if you need any designs, feel free to gimme a shout.

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Well, there's a bunch of great designs not only in the LAB RAT comic, but in game as well.
Rat Man has that sort of messy Pollack style, and a sense of Dali abstractism and surrealism.

If you just throw black and orange paint and draw eyes and robots, that counts too :)

Heck, I'd say I'm quite the connoisseur of art, if you need any designs, feel free to gimme a shout.

Thanks, I appreciate it.

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Maybe tape/nail some old and new companion cube pictures around?

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Maybe tape/nail some old and new companion cube pictures around?

How's this look?

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too green

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Green tint is gone. Is this to dark?

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Double post:

Also, does anyone know any types of paint/good methods for painting on a fabric-like material?

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Double post:

Also, does anyone know any types of paint/good methods for painting on a fabric-like material?

Spraypaint? :o

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Spraypaint? :o

That would work but its spread is a little too great, and I want to keep the feel of Lab Rat with brushes and buckets of paint. I'll keep it in mind though.

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That would work but its spread is a little too great, and I want to keep the feel of Lab Rat with brushes and buckets of paint. I'll keep it in mind though.

Acrylic, maybe?

oils might be too... well, oily.
You could airbrush,too. That'd give a great sort of splatter affect.