Mis en scene
Mis en scene is an expression used to describe the design aspects of theatre and film producation. It refers to everything that appears before the camera and its arrangement such as: composition; sets; props; actors; costumes and lighting.
Location/Setting
This setting makes the band look out of their time because they usually use a natural environment as their location which comes across more abstract, feminin and old fashioned rather than in built up everyday surroundings. However, they continue to maintain a modern look by adapting their old fashioned clothing into something that looks iconic to fans.
Costumes
Lighting
We want to make use of the daylight as much as possible in the scenes of the forest, so we could show the begining of the day, then have the day moving on, untill sunset. Doing this shows that the video begins at the begining of the day and ends at sunset. We thought this would be a good effect because the end of the day could symbolise death which relates to the song.
Our second location shown in the film will be done in a studio. This scene is of the boy building the coffin. We want to use a spotlight in a dark shed like room to create a shadow of the boy hammering the coffin. Therefore the room needs to be completely dark so the shadow on the wall is the main focus of attention. I also think this will be a good effect because the lighting we use can represent candle light which gives an old fashioned feel to the video.
Props
In the forest scenes we do not need a large amount of props because we wil mainly being using the natural environment such as logs and trees. Brining modern props into these scenes could make the forest scenes less believeable in an old fashioned sense. We want these scenes to be as natural as possible to create a dream like feel rather than living in reality.
In the studio scene, we need a hammer, nails, sawdust and a wooden work top to create the boy building a coffin.
Mis en scene is an expression used to describe the design aspects of theatre and film producation. It refers to everything that appears before the camera and its arrangement such as: composition; sets; props; actors; costumes and lighting.
Location/Setting
We have planned to locate our music video production in a local Forest as it is similar to the type of environments used in other florence and the machine videos (like shown in the image below).
This setting makes the band look out of their time because they usually use a natural environment as their location which comes across more abstract, feminin and old fashioned rather than in built up everyday surroundings. However, they continue to maintain a modern look by adapting their old fashioned clothing into something that looks iconic to fans. Costumes
We have planned to go to charity shops and buy some vintage clothing which we can alter ourselfs to make them also look modernised.
This original plan was changed when we realised it would be expensive to buy outfits for all the characters, therefore, we instead got the characters to all wear plain black clothing to symbolise darkness and death which relates to the lyrics of the song 'my boy builds coffins'.
Make up
At the begining of the video we decided to have the main character wearing very youthful and natural make up as well as the background dancers. Then nearer the end of the song when the day came to a close we used make up to make the main character look old and tired to symbolise her becoming older as the day went on and also again relating to the theme of death. This idea was to interpretate the girls life in one day. However, this scene was cut from the final video as it looked out of place in the video because we did not find a way to show her becoming older, she just suddenly became old which didnt make sense which is why this was cut.This original plan was changed when we realised it would be expensive to buy outfits for all the characters, therefore, we instead got the characters to all wear plain black clothing to symbolise darkness and death which relates to the lyrics of the song 'my boy builds coffins'.
Make up
Lighting
We want to make use of the daylight as much as possible in the scenes of the forest, so we could show the begining of the day, then have the day moving on, untill sunset. Doing this shows that the video begins at the begining of the day and ends at sunset. We thought this would be a good effect because the end of the day could symbolise death which relates to the song.
Our second location shown in the film will be done in a studio. This scene is of the boy building the coffin. We want to use a spotlight in a dark shed like room to create a shadow of the boy hammering the coffin. Therefore the room needs to be completely dark so the shadow on the wall is the main focus of attention. I also think this will be a good effect because the lighting we use can represent candle light which gives an old fashioned feel to the video.
Props
In the forest scenes we do not need a large amount of props because we wil mainly being using the natural environment such as logs and trees. Brining modern props into these scenes could make the forest scenes less believeable in an old fashioned sense. We want these scenes to be as natural as possible to create a dream like feel rather than living in reality.
In the studio scene, we need a hammer, nails, sawdust and a wooden work top to create the boy building a coffin.
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