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- 2. BEDROOM In order to create a music video which can be related to by the targeted audience, the location needed to be as life-like and realistic as possible. For this, the ideal setting would be a bedroom which would aim to promote the overall feel of the song. The room is ideally a small area which emphasizes the imprisonment aspect. The floor-space is ideal; a small space which emphasizes a prison-like setting. The room itself projects a bedroom which has the typical features (which help to project the mise en scene): such as the wardrobe, the bed, the tall- boy, and the wooden shelf unit. In addition to this, the window helps to project a sense of philosophy (with the ideology that the character can look out of it, which can be used to an advantage to hide what is outside of the window, which allows audiences to interact with the video). The indie audience can recognise that the location represents the ideology of imprisonment and philosophy, which helps to link to the rest of the product. Indie audiences will also see the window in shot, which generates a sense of philosophy; stereotypical to the indie culture.
- 3. STAIRWAY The stairway is ideal for the brief musical introduction, as it acts as a space-filler and also promotes the concept of the music video, as it shows the way in which the character gets to the bedroom. In terms of audience-relation, the indie target audience may recognise the philosophical side to the stairs, as they represent the character leaving the rest of the world to confine himself to his room. The narrow stairway also aims to promote the ‘prison’ aspect of the music video, which the stereotypical indie audience may relate to (through the fact that they are young and feel ‘imprisoned’ by their emotions).