Mise-en-scene and Location

Female Singer

We researched into the kind of clothes that indie fans wear to help us choose appropriate costume for the singers in our music video. We found that floral print was popular as well as brogues so we have chosen a floral skirt and brown brogues. We have also chosen to have the female singer wearing a red coat as the colour red symbolises love and creates cohesion with the lyrics in the song. It's also really vibrant and creates contrast with the location.

Her hair will be parted to the side with slight ruff curls to create an indie look. We found that indie style was quite natural so we've decided to use light makeup to make her features such as eyes and lips stand out but not look overdone.

Male singer

From the research we gathered, we found that males who like indie would wear slim fit jeans, checked shirts, plimpsolls, cardigans and would have longish hair styled in a messed up look.

So we have chosen to have the male singer wearing a white knitted jumper with a polo top underneath, dark, slim fit jeans and white plimpsolls. His hair will be styled in the messed up look and we won't be using any makeup.

We want our video to look laid back and relaxed so have chosen these outfits accordingly and also to fit in with the location we have chosen to film at. We don't want the costume to detract the viewers attention away from the story of the video and meaning of the song so have kept it casual and simple.

Props:

- We will be using a mobile phone in the video for when he sends a message telling her to meet him.

Location

We have chosen to film our video outside in a natural environment. We felt that the green open fields and fresh air was more romantic which links to the lyrics of the song. We wanted a location where there were no public interference so that all the focus was on the singers and their feelings towards each other. This is a photo taken from the top of the hill where we plan on shooting part of our video. It looks down to the view that will be seen in other shots. We chose to use the hill as some of the lyrics are, 'you make me so high' so we wanted to emphasis this by having them running to the top of the hill.

There will be a shot of them running up these steps which will be filmed using a close up shot panning as the artists walk up them. This will give the video a sense of movement and also create new interesting camera angles.