Mise En Scene

Costume

Here are 2 photoshoots of 2 bands, Muse (top) and The Croft (bottom). You can see they share fashion tastes as both bands are all wearing shirts, with the majority also wearing skinny ties. Both bands are of/ play the same genre and so this clothing can be expected from the typical conventions. Therefore, unless doing parody (which we are not doing), it wouldn't be a bad move for the band to wear this type of apparal in the video to meet the genre expectations.

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Lighting

The song "Every thing's undone" is about break up, distrust, loss of love, and other negative emotions. Also the song is fairly heavy, so dark colours such as black, red, purple would be associated with this.



This song is a good song to compare to the song we are using. They both sound similar, share the same instruments and similar tempo. These clips from the video show the amplification of the dark lighting and colours. In the first picture we see the red is lit up in the background, however this is no normal red, but a "blood-like" red.

And in the second picture, lighting is used very effectively here to create a sillhouette of the band, while exposing their eyes, to create an "alien" effect. Perhaps this is used to help illustrate the lyrics, as suggested using Andrew Goodwin's theory.

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Location

Location is pretty dependent on the lyrics and mood of the song. If the song is about being happy, or madly in love, the locations in the video would likely be bright, light, and natural. Whereas if the song is consists of lyrics about negativity, it is likely the video will show dark, industrial, unpleasant settings. We've previously established the song we're using is about negative things (love break up etc) so the locations used in the video are not likely to be of a field in a hot summers day up to the knees in yellow daffodills. Although saying this, it could be used to contradict the lyrics, which is another concept of Andrew Goodwin's theory.

For the narrative part of the song, locations like this are plausable considering the context of the lyrics.

 

I chose these pictures because they would be suitable; dark lighting, and generally appropriate for the song. These types of location may not be in every single rock/alternative rock video, however I highly doubt they would surprise, shock or disturb the audience and so therefore would not affect the typical genre expectations.