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1. Mise-en-scene
Brandon Holder
It is vital that we make sure that we establish the different locations, characters,
costumes and various props we plan to use in our music video to help us with
the development of our idea, our planning stage and to ensure that we create a
music video that appeals to our target audience and is to a professional standard

2. Location
1. Graveyard(pathway)/park bench
Without filming directly inside a cemetery, as we feel that it would be disrespectful, we would like to film the
pathway/entrance of a graveyard as to set the scene for our piece. This is because our location has connotations of
loss and helplessness which can act as signifiers to an audience in helping them gain a better understanding of a
music videos meaning. In addition from this the audience will also hopefully be able to make inferences about our
characters and begin to gather an understanding of the characters current emotions and the situation at hand.
The location of a park bench is also important because this location is often a place that is thought of a public space
where people are social and spend time with friends and family, however we will counter this representation as our
character will be alone on the bench, mindful of all the happy families walking past him. Although this location is
separate from the graveyard, it helps to build the atmosphere and evoke emotion from the audience about the
character and better understand the narrative. Taking advantage of British weathers rain we could use the technique
of pathetic fallacy to indicate how a indicate how a character is feeling.

3. Location
2. House
This location represents the ‘domestic abuse’ segment of our narrative. We have chosen a house as our second
location as it has typically has connotations of warmth, safety and happiness however our challenging this with our
portrayal of abuse. The house will look welcoming and appear to be safe until the character goes to her room and is
shown to actually be alone. This location also represents how in society people do not know what goes on behind
closed doors and if someone cannot find anyone to confide in or does not ask for help, their abuse can often
continue.
Furthermore the setting of a house is also significant because it can appear more relatable to an audience therefore
making the issues that the character faces in her home more identifiable or understandable because it is a familiar
location. This location is also part of our social commentary on issues that teenagers/young people face that are
stereotyped and subsequently ignored/swept under the rug because it is deemed as just being a ‘phase’ that they
must overcome on their own. The point about feeling alone is also important as with this location, utilising space
will be significant in isolating the character to make them appear vulnerable and having no one else to turn to.

4. Location
3. Woods
We would like our third location to be filmed in the woods. This is because it can signify how the character’s
emotions are no longer being hidden as nature has representations of things in their rawest form. This is important
as for this location our character is suffering from depression and does not know how to properly express the
emotions that he feels so he is in the woods, sitting in front of a raging camp fire.
The woods is an appropriate location for this scene as everything in the woods is still and natural much like our
character and that is why while in the woods, this character will appear emotionless. This location also allows us to
portray the character as being alone both literally and metaphorically as the woods can be seen as a place that is
isolated from society, people and industrialisation.

5. Lighting
We plan to film during the afternoon when it begins to get dark earlier. This is because the night as connotations of
vulnerability and isolation therefore this particular use of lighting will be appropriate for our video. We also want to
take advantage of low key lighting to convey our strong themes through what the audience see on the screen rather
than through direct explanation. During the editing stages of our production we could also make use of dull filters or
lower the saturation of colours in particular shots to better support the narrative and how the audience understand it
and make inferences based on colour schemes, contrasting colours and high/low key lighting
It is important that we plan and use our lighting correctly because it can set the tone for a lot of elements in a music
video such as the emotions the characters are feeling or their mental state and we have chosen this type of particular
lighting because our video will be addressing issues that can often be ignored or swept under the rug in mainstream
society or passed off as a ‘teenage phase’.
Our lighting should also be in sync with our genre as our music videos message is about awareness of
underrepresented issues and so our video will contrast the conventional element of the same genre which features
bright colours, warm colours and high key lighting.

6. Costume
Our choice of costume for our music video is extremely important as it will
play a huge part in the way that we convey our message to our audience. In
addition we want our characters to blend in/fade into the crowd as before
we develop our narrative and this is because in the early stages of our video
we want our characters to conform to societal stereotypes so that the
audience recognise these stereotypes and ignore the possibility of underlying
issues in (teenagers/young people) our characters.

7. Character: Artist
Artist
Our artist will be wearing conventional indie style clothing as it best fits our RnB/indie rock genre and the
type of music video we are trying to create. In addition this clothing style fits in with our representation
of a modest and humble artist who is more concerned about the message and creating music oppose to
an artist who only makes music for the sole purpose about the money.
Our characters/artist will be wearing casual clothing that does not make them stand out. With this we are
making social commentary on the assumptions of teenagers by other social groups.

8. Character(Artist): Clothing

9. Character: 1
Character 1 who has lost a loved one and is now homeless will be wearing casual clothing that will look slightly
worn out and will have light shades of dirt on his face. This style will include a grey/black beanie hat, a simple
grey top, dark blue jacket, dark blue jeans and Nike trainers.
We will be filming each character on their own, each on different days and in different scenes. However
character 1 will only have one set outfit for the music video. The use of dark colours will represent the negative
emotions and atmosphere of the scene as these types of colours have connotations of pain and loneliness.

10. Character 1: Clothing

11. Character 2: Clothing

12. Character: 2
We will be filming each character on their own, each on different days and in different scenes. For character 2 we will
have two separate outfits because of our theme of domestic abuse as the audience will see bruises in the very beginning
of the scene and then they will see that more bruises have appeared when the character is getting ready the next
morning and this highlights the severity of the issues and also helps further develop and support the continuity of the
music video.
The character will be wearing bright colours as bright colours have connotations of happiness and well being and this
contrasts with the situation that the audience will see on screen and this highlights how not all is at it seems with young
people in society and that issues can be hidden behind a positive exterior.
Character 2’s style of clothing will be fashionable and also quite modern with bright colours included. Her first
outfit/style of clothing will include a bright coloured top, denim jean jacket, jeans and black boots. Whereas her
second outfit will be casual pyjamas with colourful patterns

13. Character: 3
Our third character who is suffering from depression/loneliness will be dressed in smart casual clothing. This style will
include a simple shirt, dark jeans and trainers. This character will have a smart casual look because this style could
suggest order however the emotions of the character are in a state of disorder and through this use of mise-en-scene
we are creating a contrast that highlights the difficulties in identifying mental health issues in young people by the
general public and how to hide issues, young people can put up a barrier between themselves and others to hold in their
true emotions until they are left with their own thoughts – which is what this character represents.
This style of clothing is also supposed to make this character more relatable to our target demographic as this can be
seen as what they younger generation are also most likely to wear, which could then in turn make his actions more
identifiable to our audience. This could also then build up awareness within our audience about spotting signs that
someone may be asking for help with directly asking for it.

14. Character 3: Clothing

15. Props
Our use of mise-en-scene is significant because we want to show through our different representations that we have
considered the conventional props which are used in our chosen genres music videos and specifically selected what
elements we wanted to include in our own music video.
Props:
Alcohol
Drugs
Photographs
Mirrors
Stuffed animals
Posters