Production Designer
What can I say about this EPIC video...This was the second time I was working with director Daniel Gibling and most of the crew, so I knew that the outcome would be something special. We met in the same café we had met on the first project (Evacuate for Primal Device) and started exchanging ideas in regards to the visual identity and design of the video.This kept happening all through the preproduction stage with new ideas popping up (usually in the middle of the night) about every small detail. With £150.00 for the art department budget, we had to be clever...
I was looking for some kind of emblem for the two rival groups, a symbol that would represent each of them. The band's name provided me with the first clue. I went on to do some research on the Bronze age civilisations in Europe and decided to use the Cretan Hieroglyphs of the Minoan civilisation, the first writing in Europe. The symbol used on the red banner represents MAN and the one on the blue BRONZE. All the shapes body painted on the two warriors are also symbols used by bronze age cultures.
Minoan Hieroglyphs used on the banners meaning MAN (in red) and BRONZE (in blue).
Symbols used by bronze age cultures body painted on the two warriors .
There were a few elements that the director and the band wanted to be present in the video. The 3 concentric circles graphic for example, from the band's album The Gallows Tree, was one of them. We decided to feature this as the design of the arena marked in chalk on the ground. It was also used on the kick drum of both drum kits.
The 3 concentric circles graphic used as the design of the arena marked in chalk on the ground and on the kick drum of both drum kits.
Watch the video of the making of Eyebags:
