Music Videos | Lizzie Wood Design

Radio One's Big Weekend 2017. The number of people at the side of the stage often outnumber those on it.

Delivering Music Video & Styling Projects

Overview

For 15 years, I worked as a designer and maker, primarily in the music industry. These fast-paced, high-pressure projects required coordinating diverse stakeholders, managing tight budgets, and balancing creative freedom with practical constraints.

Goals

Each project was different but in had key goals in similar:

To align and connect varied stakeholder needs.
To deliver on time and within budget, despite shifting priorities.
To ensure the final product meets creative, technical, and business goals.

Outcome

Successful projects delivered:

Press-worthy costumes that aligned with artistic visions.
Satisfied clients, leading to repeat work.

Past clients included

Navigating Stakeholder Complexity

High-profile creative projects brought together teams from different organisations with unique priorities.

Stakeholder map showing key collaborators for a typical costume design job.

Project Workflow

Each project had a somewhat defined structure, but the creative process remained iterative, agility was key.

Managing Change & Uncertainty

Projects with many moving parts required constant adaptation to changing creative visions. The best design solutions came from embracing and openly communicating constraints.

1) Fittings throughout allow for a change for design direction & technical decisions to be made. 2) Wall with designs, pattern development & prototypes. 3) Sending photos to clients of how materials look together. How they appear on camera is often more important than how they look to the naked eye.

Achievements & Reflection

Jess Glynne and Dancers, The Brit Awards 2016

I was often booked for jobs as I specialised in working with unique materials and was open to experiment and work in new ways. I won clients due to my ability to design and make according to brief on time and in budget.

It goes without saying that I have many memorable experiences from my years working in this industry but made the decision to change career so I could use creative problem and collaboration solving in a wider context to drive longer term change.