Analysis of a similar/influential music video

Avril Lavigne -  When your gone

http://youtu.be/0G3_kG5FFfQ

This is a very influential and similar music video to what we want to achieve with our own. Throughout the whole song there is a story line which goes alongside the lyrics. This helps the audience to understand the song with ease and we feel that we would like to create this same effect too. In particular the scene with the boy and the girl where the mum comes along and argues with them. We hope to create an argument scene to show the contrast in the relationship of our two characters. To help add effect there are close ups of the girl and boy to show the emotion and then the pace of the argument is slowed down to empathize the meaning much more. Furthermore there are many close ups of the artist singing in a very similar background. Alongside the close ups of her face, the setting is kept the same throughout the song. We hope to film in the same area throughout but change the mood of the scene with brightness of lighting and props. For example for the dark scenes we will cut out all light and use studio lights and candles.

My in depth research into one of the mise en scene is lighting. We will use this to our advantage by showing the different sides of a relationship through colour. The bright scenes with have bright lights and white settings and props, and the dark scenes will have no colour and candles placed around the room. An effective lighting technique is shining the light onto the side of a persons face which only light up half of the face and the other half is in shadow. This is effective as it creates a saddening effect and we could use this in the sad scenes, also it makes the person blend in with the background. Another good technique is using filters to create a different mood by changing the colour of the scenes. We could use this to show the vast contrast suddenly with the change of the scene. We did consider using candles but to use them as best we can we thought that using a filter and distributing the light so you get a streaks across the screen whenever the light catches a certain part of the lens  We watched various tutorials on this to enable that we would get the best out of it. muc