The Mise-en-Scene will have to fit our video that we are creating. We have taken photos of equipment that we thought might be appropriate in the bar/club scene. The lights will also determine the lighting of this scene.

In creating our poster, we compensated a range of ideas and chose the best suited. We want our video to be based in two separate eras, therefore we took two pictures of the main character. One photo looking as though she is based in the 1900s, as we wanted her to look like a flapper, and one from modern times.

We then began to create a poster for our song/video on Coral. We changed the contrast of the older looking photo to black and white. After this we split the pictures so that we had half of each face and placed them on to our poster; this signifies the character in the two separate times. We changed the background to polker dot as it gives a retro edge, again fitting with the old era we are trying to present. We made the fonts red as it fits with the colour of the shoes in the video.

This is our final outcome:

In These Shoes? - Kirsty MacColl

This is our storyboard that we planned before we filmed our final piece to help us keep an understanding narrative throughout. Although we changed some of the shots, we stuck to the main idea of the plot, which we felt helped us as we had already planned the shot types etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjvaqVAFuLI , We chose 'In these Shoes' by Kirsty MacColl to create a music video which will last for one minute. These are our basic planning ideas so far:

• The beginning music lasts for twelve seconds before there is any singing, we thought that a slow pan across some make-up and onto a mirror was a good idea to gear the video toward the female gender and to suggest that she is getting ready to go out, as later on in the track we thought of setting the video in a bar.
  
• Additionally, we had an idea of a girl walking down the landing who has just got out the shower, then using match on action to ensure the shots link, this will lead from the landing to the bedroom. The camera will focus on her entering the room, however she walks past the camera, in which we see the second female character doing her make up. There will be various shots of the girl lip syncing. In doing this, there will be over the shoulder shots, where we see her in the mirror, mid shots of her face, and panning over the make-up.
  
• We want to base the scene in a club, as the song mentions a bar. We have thought of several possibilities once she is located there, such as various shots focusing on the character's shoes, where the heal changes colour.
  
• At the very beginning of the song, there is a guitar strum, we thought it was a good idea to have someone strumming a guitar to show more understanding of timing. The guitar will then be seen in the girl's bedroom, to show its relevancy.
  

The Killers, Sam's Town, Read my Mind and Day and Age, Human-Video/Poster Analysis

The Killers Poster
• The title is bold and the circles in it are iconographic of the band, as shown on the CD case.
• There is an image of the CD cover placed on the front, this is a similar idea to ours as the female artist was on the cover of the digipak and she is also on our CD case.
• There is a picture of the band, the background is similar to that of the ‘Sam’s Town’ album case, reflecting more of their products, which carries out synergy.
• The background is dull; however, the title brightens it up. The red is also shown on the Sam’s Town CD case on the title.

The ram handle bars on the bike reflects the inner part of the CD case where there is an image of a ram. This carries out synergy as there are similar images being portrayed.

The name of the album is in the background, which is shown in a range of different shots.

The conventions of indie bands usually consist of images of the band and instruments, normally playing together. In our video we will ensure to follow similar conventions, however conventions that fit our genre of music.

The red light is a common motif with The Killers’ videos and also , links with the colour of the Sam’s Town title on the CD case.