Mise en scene refers to everything presented in a scene that appears in front of the camera, including location, costumes, props, and color. The document provides details on the mise en scene for a music video, including using a house to show a relationship and hill to represent lyrics, not using costumes for stick figure characters, including a guitar as a prop to connect to song lyrics, and using bright colors for happy scenes and cool colors for sad scenes to quickly portray character moods.

1. Mise en scene
What is mise en scene?
What is mise en scene is everything
that is present in a scene

2. Location
• Our music video will take place in a variety of locations. It will start in a
house, which has been used to show that our 2 characters are in a
relationship. It is also used to make them seem trapped, which results
in the female character (raincloud) becoming sad. The next location that
we would use is a hill. This was chosen due to the fact that it links with
the lyrics “I will help you climb this hill”. This allowed us to represent
the lyrics of the song through performance. It is also an intertextual
reference to the childrens nursery rhyme ‘jack and jill’.

3. Costumes
• The characters in our animation are stick
figures, so giving them costumes would be
inappropriate for many reasons. The most
notable reason is the if our characters were
wearing costumes then they would become
very difficult to animate.

4. Props
• Due to the majority of our songa lyrics being represented
through the environment and character actions, we do not
have many props. We do have a guitar, as we wanted to have
a minor element of performance on our video. As a big
portion of the song contains a guitar, this would help establish
a connection between what our audience see’s and what they
hear. In our final scene our male character (sunshine)plants a
seed in the ground, which grows into a flower. This is used to
represent our 2 protagonists happiness, as well as the fact
that they have ‘become one’ with each other.

5. Colour
• As our song possesses an upbeat happy tempo, our
video is full of bright, rich colours. When a character is
happy, those scenes will have warm colours
(reds, yellows). When character is sad, those scenes
will have cool colours (blues, purples). By using colour
in this way it allows us to portray the mood of
characters quickly and easily, which allows the
audience to see how they are feeling. This is done in
our opening shot, where one side of the shot is in
sunlight and has bright green grass, and the other is
under a raincloud and has dark green grass.