Posted above is our first attempt at filming our music video. We decided to focus on band shots to explore what worked and what didn't; it gave us a chance to practice filming and editing, while experiancing what it is like working as a group.
We used our schools Drama studio as a location; this provided us with our first problem - the mise-en-scene wasn't effective. This was actually an important mistake to make early on in the process; watching the footage we had filmed helped us immediately notice that the conventions of a music video - of the rock-music genre - were not there due to the lack of consideration concerning the mise-en-scene. Indeed, it was visually apparent in the footage that were filming in some sort of studio - the black curtains, wooden floor - and a noticeble lack of mess or theme. This 'decision' to not decorate or thoughtfully choose a suitable location meant the video lacked professionalism - it was inadvertadly subverting the conventions of the music video; 'rockstars' aren't known to film in a school's drama studio. Indeed, we wanted to show as a group how we had thought about the important theories regarding media; thinking about 'genre theory' gave us a constant reminder that we wanted to show we had purposely and with reason either subverted or converted the suspected apsects of a music video.
In making this mistake, our group realised the importance and potential devasting effect of mise-en-scene; it's an essential part of a music video, one that we were quick to rectify by planning ahead in future filming.
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