Music Video - Mise-En-Scene

All shots we filmed we thought about the mise-en-scene however the shot that involved the most thought put into mise-en-scene that we used whilst filming was in the band shoot, because we were filming a black space and needed objects to 'dress it up'.

The light settings

Before we had the shoot I set up the lighting, which was quite difficult. I had never properly worked with lighting before, apart from a brief workshop I did in AS a year ago, so the process of setting it up was very tricky since I didn't really know what I was doing. But I set up two free standing white lights that I angled into the set so it would light the band members up nicely by showing their faces.

I had wanted the lighting to be coloured as red and blue with a gobo effect but we didn't have the equipment for that. I also set up the fixed lighting, we had four lights fixed in a box position, you can see to the right the brightness I had the lights on. The levels on the left didn't control any lights so they were off, but the centre ones controlled the lights in front of the band, I had them on quite high because we wanted the band's faces to be visible to the audience, I had the centre left on higher because it had a yellow bulb so it gave a warmer tone, and we didn't want the footage to be extremely warm. This is why we had the white lights as well because otherwise the footage would be too warm and I would have to edit it to be colder which could lower the quality.

We had the band back lit because we wanted to create a enigmatic space where the audience couldn't see the set behind the band since the glare from the lights would stop the anything from being seen apart from the band and the obvious props.

You can see below some more of the light set up:

BTS - We were playing around with having a 'The Who'
inspired shot.

The lighting created this effect on the band, I really like the lighting because it makes the shot look a lot more aesthetically pleasing, the band being backlit also creates a glow around Isaac (the frontman) which adds to his status as being the actor in the rest of the video.

The shot above also shows the mise-en-scene of the set with the props we included. We had two amps set up; since one is massively bigger than the other we put fairy lights on the smaller one to compensate. We had two guitars in the band because the shot would be unequal if we a drum set, because we were filming Jack (red guitar) in a close up shot we had him wearing a strap holding the guitar. However because we only had one strap Tom (black guitar) had to hold his up but because it is black and his shirt is as well the audience can not see it as much. Isaac is holding a microphone since we thought it would add more realness to the footage.