A description of the different forms of mise-en-scene in which we will be using to create the music video for my A2 Media Studies

1. Mise-En-Scene:

2. What is mise-en-scene?
Mise-en-scene is everything in the music video that isn’t the
actors/actresses.
This could be:
- Props
- Locations
- Lighting
- Colours
- Costumes
- Make-up

3. How do we plan on using it? PROPS
In our music video we plan to use props such as iPhones, (fake)
alcoholic drinks, cars, and other things to make our video look as
legitimate to real life as possible.
Using things like iPhones in our video will make it look modern and
new, and including alcoholic drinks will appeal to a younger adolescent
audience.
Using these props will attract our target audience because they are
young (16-19) and like going to parties and also tend to have iPhones
and cars etc. Our artist is a young male, and we believe he would use
similar props in his videos, and we want to create that link between our
video and the artist.

4. How do we plan on using it? LOCATIONS
We plan to use several different locations in our music video to make it
seem as though several days/weeks have passed. We think this will attract
our audience because it will create quite a vivid imaginable story for them
to watch.
Our audience may also be able to relate to the storyline and so this will
therefore make them enjoy it even more.
The Weeknd also likes to create strong narratives in his music videos, and
so by doing this in our video, we are making sure it fits with him, as well as
the genre of his music and his audience.

5. How do we plan on using it? LIGHTING
Most of our music video will be shot using natural lighting because our
locations are mainly either outside or in a car. However, we have got a
scene in which will be shot in a ‘dark room’, therefore we are going to
need to use several different lights to create the best ‘club’
environment. By using the dark room to create our club scene we can
ensure that we’ll be able to create a realistic atmosphere for the video.
We can also create a club mood, including using the fake alcoholic
drinks. This scene will definitely appeal to our audience because they
are the age in which they either start going to parties or clubs and start
getting into more serious relationships etc.

6. How do we plan on using it? COLOURS
The narrative for our music video is quite dark and
emotional but also relatable to our target audience.
However, we don’t want our video to be dull and use dark,
black toned colours. Therefore, we have chosen to create
happier, more vibrant scenes in it as well. In these scenes
we will try and use more happy colours, this will be
presented through the costumes and make-up of our
actors, and also through the lighting in the club scene etc.
For the ‘break-up’ scenes, we may choose to shoot in the
evening/night to create a darker setting which will also
create the mood to be a lot lower and not as happy.

7. How do we plan on using it? COSTUMES
The costumes of our audience are going to young,
and fashionable and relatable to the fashion that we
believe our target audience will wear. This will be
clothes such as ripped jeans, t-shirts, boots, jumpers,
coats etc.
By using the same style outfits as our target
audience we will be making our video more
appealing to our audience which will make them
want to watch it. Our artist also wears relatively
fashionable clothing in his videos, this will also
create a link between ours and his videos.

8. How do we plan on using it? MAKE-UP
The make-up of our actresses will be relatively ‘normal’ to the make-up
that people tend to wear daily. We aren’t going to be creating any
abnormal scenes which requires drastic or weird make-up. The scenes
in our video are going to be in real-life settings, so we will therefore
create different make-up looks depending on the location.
This works in the same way as our costumes, in that because we are
keeping things relatable to real life, we need to our costumes to be as
realistic to the scenes as possible.