The document examines the mise-en-scène elements in indie rock music videos, focusing on lighting, clothing, make-up, setting, props, and colors. It highlights the use of dark and contrasting lighting, typical indie rock clothing styles, varied make-up trends, common settings like trashed houses or natural environments, and a limited color palette dominated by dark shades. Key references include artists like Florence + The Machine, Arctic Monkeys, and The Kooks.

1. Mise-en-scene research
Lighting, clothing, make-up, setting, props and colours

2. Lighting:
 Lighting tends to be dark/ dull
and vague colour but not so
dark that you can’t see there
faces
 Sometimes lighting can show a
unique contrast which NME do
regularly in there magazines
 Shadow reflections may be
added to add a diverse effect
Shadow effect on side of his face

3. Clothing:
 Clothing is usually very dark colours such as blacks, browns and darker shades of other
colours.
 Leather jackets and black skinny jeans is a very precise look which many indie-rock artists
would be seen to wear (stereotype)
 Clothing is also sometimes uncommon but indie-rock artists can pull it off!
The Kooks The Killers

4. Make-up
 Make-up can vary with indie-rock as it can come from two different views:
 Rock: black eyeliner (top and bottom), pale face
 Indie: bright colours/ or pale colours (eyeshadow), bright bold lipsticks or pale
again, pastel colours
 When they’re put together, it can look a little like this…
Florence Welch from
Florence + the Machine

5. Setting:
music videos
 A typical stereotype for an indie-
rock setting would be a trashed
house after a party/ and or in
natural environment's such as
forests, seaside etc
 Other settings can include for
example skating or car journeys
(these are seen very regularly in
music videos with indie rock
bands).
 Some more indie videos can vary
from a vast of different but unique
ideas
Arctic Monkeys- R U Mine
Vampire Weekend
The 1975- Chocolate

6. Props:
 Many indie rock artists have instruments within their band
mainly being the electric guitar or bass
 Drums are sometimes included but not as often
The Smiths
The Strokes

7. Colours
 Within music magazines, the colours for
indie rock are red, black, white and
yellow (sometimes)
 In terms of clothing, its usually black and
dark clothing and very little colour
 Even hairstyles tend to be dark apart from
red
Lana Del Rey
HAIM