Mise-En-Scene

 

Locations/Settings:

We chose a park as one of our locations as it showed memories of where the female used to hang around when everything was perfect. It also has significance to couples as they can go for romantic picnics and walks.

We also chose to shoot the female on the swing because it can show her thinking, and when she is swinging its like she is stuck between two places just hanging in the middle and cant decide what to do.



a party scene would be a good time to shoot because it could again show the female at a place that used to be familiar to her, but yet now she feels like she doesnt belong there.

We chose to film at a beach as well because it is a place that a lot of couples go to, and we wanted to show the female feeling insecure by visiting places she used to go to with her ex, but now shes alone its like shes clinging onto the past and doesnt know how to let go.

Another place we chose to shoot was down a deserted lane as that could emphasise the females isolation now that she is on her own and has nobody else to turn to.

We chose to film at the woods as well because the female would stand out like in a place where she feels like she doesnt belong, which would fit with the lyrics of the song.


Overall i think that all the locations that we have chosen to film at all link back to the females isolation, and the situation she is at in the song. The way that she used to have so much but now she has nothing you cant hold onto the past, you have to let go and move on.

Costume:
Throughout the video the female is shown wearing white, as this shows that she is an innocent and pure female, even though the song lyrics might suggest that she has done wrong in the past.

Her first outfit shows that she is wearing a white flowy top with red lettering on it and the white connotes innocence and purity whereas the red connotes love. The blue jeans connotes neutral, and adds something different to the look.

Her second outfit which is a white lace dress with white shoes, portrays all her innocence throughout her whole body.

We chose to have white shoes, as this implies innocence and purity and shows the female is pure throughout her whole body.

Lighting:
We have chose to shoot our film during the day because the shots would look more realistic. Daylight is all quite high key lighting, and it also helps the audience understand the mood of the song. During the party scene the lighting is going to be low key but with some artifical colour lights which will help set the mood of the scene, we will use one light which will help emphasise the female as she will be shown isolated away from everyone else in the party.

Actors:
In our music video we are going to have one main actor, which is a female. We have chosen the female we have to act because she goes to a drama college and likes to sing both in and outside of college. She would be the best person to act in our video because she would act to the best of her ability and would give a good performance. The poses that she would be doing are a mix between closed and open, as when the lyrics say she is scared she will have closed body language, and when the lyrics say that she is happy her body language will be open. There will be a mix of facial expressions but the main one, would be sad because the lyrics are all about someone that used to have everything and now she doesnt have anything and she has to make it alone, so it wouldnt fit the lyrics if she had a postive facial expression. Her gestures would all fit with her facial expressions and link back to the lyrics, as she would show that she is scared but also happy knowing that she isnt going to let anything else get her down. Also the pictures in the photo album will show the female with her old friends and family, and these would show the girl happy but when she is looking back on them she will be sad because she is realising what she used to have but she doesnt have it anymore.

 

Make up:

We are going to have the female wearing make up because we wanted her to look like other teenagers in society and show that she isnt different to any of them. It could also imply that she is trying to cover her problems with her make-up, that she is becoming a whole new different person, and this is showing that she is trying to move on from the past and make it as someone in the future. The make up that she will be wearing is fake eyelashes, red lipstick, foundation and black eyeliner.

The red lipstick connotes love, and a theme that is present throughout the video is love, as she is trying to forget all the past heartbreak she has had from family and ex-boyfriends. Also teenage girls in society now are wearing red lipstick which shows that she is no different to any other girl.

 

Props:

The props that we have chosen to use, are all objects that a modern teenage girl would use daily. We have chosen to do this because we want to show the audience that she is no different to any other teenager.

A phone is a modern everyday object that is used all the time, and it shows that teenagers like to keep in contact with other people they might not see all the time. We chose our female to have a phone, because she can look through old pictures on her phone of old memories, and it connotes that she wants to get in contact with old friends and that she is a modern girl.

A photo album might not be an everyday object, but we have chosen to have it in our video, because the lyrics are about something that you used to have but you dont have it anymore and now the actor has to make it on her own, so we thought a good way to show things that she used to have would be through pictures in a photo album.

Within the photo album we were going to focus on one picture, of the female and an ex and when she flicks through the pictures and she gets to this one she then pulls it out and rips it in half. This implies that she is putting the past behind her, and showing that she doesnt want anything to remember all her bad memories.

We were going to show the female stood near a windowsill, and on that was an egg timer. We changed it from a clock because as a group we thought that a clock was really everyday and we wanted something that was different. We chose an egg timer because it shows the passing of time, and you can see the sand moving from the top part of the glass to the bottom which adds a real sense of something that you wont be able to ever have back again.

we chose a bag as a prop, because it is something that every girl has, and its something that makes each person stand out from the rest because everything they have, is different from everybody else.

We chose to have make-up as a prop as well because for some girls it is an essential everyday item that they cant go out the house without wearing. For some girls it makes them feel more confident when they are wearing it, and for modern girls a big part of who they are is from the way the look.