Set & Costume Design

Mise-en-scene: lighting, costume, location, make up, props, choreography.

Cast list: photos of cast and why they were selected.

Filming diary: talking to camera (video) updated regularly an on location.

Communication: e-mails, letters, texts messages, summary of phone calls to show organisation skills. 

Behind the scenes: evidence of preparation of production e.g. setting up tracking, tripods and directing cast. 

Mise-en-scene



Casting

In regards to the casting, I decided to have Victoria as the main character in my music video. The main reason being that she fit the ideas that I had for a narrative/main character - a female who could play a young adult. Not only this, but she was the artist that I used for my foundation portfolio, and so I thought it would look good to have the same artist and continue the same style/persona in my advanced portfolio.

One of the chosen locations was the green room/studio so that I could record shots of her lip-syncing the lyrics against a white wall. For these clips, I asked her to wear the same/a similar top to what she wore on the cover for my AS media music magazine because I wanted her outfit to be quite minimalistic and by continuing the same outfit and style from last year created consistency.

As it turned out in the final studio shots since the top she wore was a cropped black off-the-shoulder top, the way I framed the shots meant you couldn't see her clothing. Although this wasn't planned beforehand, I decided to purposefully frame the shots this way on the day of recording because I thought it looked better and drew more attention to her face.

Communication

When recording the studio shots for my first mock draft, Victoria and I decided we would share the studio space and film segments for each other's videos together which we thought would work out more time-efficient. Below is a screenshot of the texts which we exchanged the night before asking each other about clothes and makeup.

I asked her to do her hair however she liked because I wanted the look to be quite natural, asked her to wear the plain black top as mentioned beforehand and to do her makeup slightly smoky. The reason I asked her to do this was to hopefully draw more attention to her eyes, and I asked her to leave her lip colour undone so I had the option on the day of recording and could decide whether the shots looked better with a nude lip or bold lip colour.

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