The fifteen points of miss en scene

There are fifteen key features that directors tend to look at the most when composing a clip of an image which has a mise en scene. They are:

1. Dominent's

2. Lighting Key

3. Shot and camera Proxemics

4. Angle

5. Colour Values

6. Lens/Filter/stock

7.Subsidery contrast

8. Density

9. Composition

10. Form 

11. Framing

12. Depth

14. Character placement

15. Staging Positions

By using these main concepts and including them in my imagery work i will try to create images and shots at a professional standard.

I will also try and stuck to the rule of thirds as a lot of the shots that i have planned to do are off centre. e.g

I think this is an important expect of a music video as it can make the difference between a shot looking professional or ordinary. 

Lighting

Key Light

• The key is the brightest light and casts the primary shadows, giving a sense of direction to the lighting.

Fill Light

• The main function of the fill light is to fill in the shadows produced by the key light without casting a distinct shadow of its own.

Backlight

• Backlights, sometimes called hair, rim or edge lights, are placed on the opposite side of the subject from the camera, high enough to be out of view.

Set Light

• A fourth basic light, the set light, may be used to illuminate the background. Usually the background is partly lit by the key and fill lights, as well as by several set lights.

Lighting Styles

• Lighting choices should be made before beginning to film, and should be based on the lighting style you hope to achieve.

  When filming i found that buy moving the camera so that a small burst of sun would come out from directly behind the artists head instead of using it solely as a back light you could create a camera flare that looks really effective and vibrant. It also really captures the audiences attention.

 

Album cover photos (my photogenic ducks)

The idea of ducks came from thinking about the words playing and tides which is in the name of our album Playing With Tides. Our music video is about a love triangle so i thought we should try and show that in our album cover. Ducks are usually found ponds and so the mise en scene of these images was an obvious one. By using a boy duck and girl duck it creats a sense of playfulness and youth. By placing them in a kissing position they are able to create a code to the audience that this album will be based around a relashionship that has or had all of these qualities.
The image with the duck tilted on the side gives the audience the idea that the hes been left by  the girl duck, code, a code for a broken relashionship, lonlyness and sadness.

One of the images shows the boy duck leaning on the girl duck, a image that shows that the male in the relashionship depends on the felmale. If i were to use these images on the album cover the audience would be able to identify the codes that are produced from the positions of the ducks. The pond represents there home, a familiar place were they both like to go and relax. Home comforts.

1st album cover

High angle shot

Low angle shot  

This is the first album cover that i created for our band. It had the main conventions that most music videos have, an image of the artist, the album name and the artist name.
To create the effect above i placed the same picture in the same document 3 times and swivelled the image in a different position. making them all a bit more transparent that each other.

We took an arrange of photos that we could use for our album cover.

With the images of the group that we are using we had to take a variety of shots to show that they are a group. Firstly the bench shots. I made teh girls sit with there legs crossed legged hands on there laps. The fact that they all did this creats a code for the group of unity and 'sisterhood'. We took the main pictures in the forest. The mise en scene, trees and greenery creates an open an d airy space. a code for freedom  and liberty. There facial expressions show that they are thinking of something, maybe a memory or something that has happened in the past.

Their dress code is sophisticated and casual.   

Getting personal with the equiptment

A day before the shoot i thought i would get some practice in with the equipment so that i would be able to save time when we were actually filming our video. Firstly i had to discover how you altered the height of the tripod.

Firstly i had to try and find out how to make the legs of the tripod longer so that we could take shots from different angles and heights. I discovered that by moving the two caps that rested on the legs up, i would be able to make two of the separate parts of the leg longer. 

I then decided to attach my camera to the stand to see if the bolt that attaches the tech to the stand wasn't faulty

Once I attached the camera to the Tripod I changed the height to all of the three positions that were available to this particular stand