Mise-en-scene

Mise-en-scène is an expression used to describe the design aspect of a video production, which essentially means “visual theme” or “telling a story”—both in visually artful ways through storyboarding, cinematography and stage design, and in poetically artful ways through direction. There are some elements that make up the mise-en-scene. These include lighting, costuming, camera placement, camera angles, props etc.

Setting is a very important element of “putting up the scene” – the setting of the scene and the objects visible. Our music video will be shot in different settings as it has many different scenes. For the shot including the performance of our artist, the setting we have chosen is a studio that belongs to my team members father, Daheem. Plain background setting will be put and the artist performance will take place in front of that. For the shot where a person will be shown indulging in their favourite dessert, we have decided to shoot it in a very cool and aesthetic cafe. Some of the scene will be shot indoors in a room. The shot including friends watching Netflix together will be shot in an indoor cosy setting. Children letting go off the helium baloons will be shot in an open ground. Below are some refrences that will give you guys an idea of what setting we really want our video to be shot at. The bus stop scene will be shot at a bus stop station. The shot of kids enjoying their joyride will be taken at an amusement park.

The intensity, direction and quality of lighting can influence an audiences understanding of characters, actions, themes and mood. Our music video will be shot both indoors and outdoors, in day light and indoor lighting set up. Since our music video is based on the idea of happiness, the lighting of it will be high-key, bright and energetic so as to radiate postive vibes out of the video. Light is the source of goodness and the ultimate reality. This will encourage an optimistic upbeat reaction and go best with the theme of the video.When you see a bright light, you feel extremely happy and positive in life. There’s absolutely nothing that you fear since a beautiful bright light always tries to bring positive energies to your side. In fact, all the positive energies are of bright white light.

Costume refers to the clothes our characters will be wearing. Our music video will have clips from normal day routine and so the costumes of most of our characters will be kept casual and simple. The costume of our artist will be very funky and colourful. The different colors in the artists jacket represents different emotions and feelings giving out a care-free and positive vibe. We will make our character wear a jacket and pants beneath with sneakers. The jacket will have patched of different colour so that it stands out against the plain background. The whole look, combined with the hairstyle and sunglasses, is meant to potray cool, cheerful and easy-going attitude.

The shot which includes a guy sitting at the bus stop, our character will be wearing a plain black suit to make it look professional. Other characters will be wearing simple normal day clothes to show them finding happiness in state they are normally in.

The hairstyle of our artist will be spikes or gelled hair to match the vibe of his costume. Other characters will have normal hairstyle and very elegant and subtle make up look to those who need it.

There are many props that we will be needing. We will need a

boquet of roses

,a broom stick, a DJ board, an aesthetic looking dessert,

colour powder:

for colour fight, popcorn basket, cute socks etc.