Mise-en-scene Research

The song that we are doing is Holes by Passenger and is in the genre of Folk-Rock, there are many traits of mise-en-scene that goes with this genre. Folk Rock artists include The Beatles, Rolling Stones and more recently, Mumford and Sons and these all wear similar 'folk-rock' clothes of shirts with the top button undone and usually a lot of denim. In our video we will dress our actor in jeans and a scraggy coat to help create the busker look but as our narrative is for him to have a rise to fame we will dress him in a white shirt and jeans when he reaches fame to show the rise he from 'rags to riches' he has had.

Here you can see the Folk Rock band Mumford and Sons and can see how they don't wear formal clothes during their performances but they wear smart casual clothes which is the look we'll go for when filming our performance shots when our character becomes famous. The lead singer (second from left) is wearing a white shirt which he wears when performing so we may take an inspiration from this and use a white shirt when are actor performs in front of a crowd.



We will be using a street corner in Cambridge for many of our singing songs as well as an alleyway close by to film some other shots including walking shots and the opening shot. These locations are perfect for our video as these fit in with the narrative of the video as this could be a possible place where a busker may perform and live, also there will be a lot of people walking past which will help as it will help the video to look more realistic. You can find photos of these locations in our location recce. We need a few props for our video to help set the scene and give the video a realistic feel. We are going to use a guitar in our video for the performance scenes because this what a busker would use on the streets and it will also have string missing to represent that he can not afford to replace it. We are also going to have a case for the guitar as we need this to carry it around for some shots and also to put the money on top to represent him busking on the streets and people giving him money for it.

This is a real life busker and this is similar to the look we will be going for. We will look to have a similar guitar and case as well as him wearing jeans but we will have a wooly hat instead of the trilby and also dress our actor with fingerless gloves as this is a common trend of homeless buskers.

Call Sheet Day 2

Title: Passenger - Holes

Crew: Henry Smith                        Date: Fri 11th Oct                Weather:  12 degrees C
           Josh Read
           Joe Murfitt

Equipment: Camera, tripod, reflector, torch, stills camera 

• All three of us are going to collect the equipment.

Location: Drama Studio, Long road Sixth Form College

Schedule: 

1.  14:40 - Meet at media lesson block to pick up equipment.
2.  14:50 - Set up equipment in drama studio.
3.  15:00 - Start filming live performance shots (close ups, pans, dolly rotations).
4.  15:40 - Pack up equipment.
5.  15:50 - Upload footage to mac.

If Raining: N/A

Call Sheet Day 3

Title: Passenger - Holes

Crew: Henry Smith                        Date: Mon 14th Oct                Weather: 10 degrees C, Cloudy
           Josh Read
           Joe Murfitt

Equipment: Camera, tripod, reflector, torch, stills camera 

• All three of us are going to collect the equipment.

Location:   3, 59 Sidney St Cambs CB2 3HX, UK

Schedule: 

1.  16:10 - Meet at G block to pick up equipment.
2.  16:20 - Get bus into Cambridge centre.
3.  16:40 - Start filming at 59 Sydney Street, Busking shots.
4.  17:20 - Start filming at 3 Sydney Street, walking and phone-box shots.
5.  18:00 - Pack up equipment.

If Raining:

1.  16:10 - Meet at G block to pick up equipment.
2.  16:20 - Get bus into Cambridge centre.
3.  16:40 - Start filming in Sidney Street alleyway.
4.  17:20 - Pack up equipment.

Target Audience

Our target audience is based around the age group of 16-25 as this is the group of people that are more likely to listen to folk rock music and they are of a similar age to the artist. We plan to make our digipak appeal to this audience as well as advertising it in a magazine that our target audience would read. We will achieve this by creating a digipak that is busy with type, images, and fonts that fit the demographic and psychographic of our target audience.

Call Sheet Day 1

Group P1-14 Call Sheet Day 1

Title: Passenger - Holes

Crew: Henry Smith                        Date: Mon 7th Oct                  Weather: 16 degrees C, Cloudy
           Josh Read
           Joe Murfitt


Equipment: Camera, tripod, reflector, torch, stills camera 

• All three of us are going to collect the equipment.

Location:   59 Sidney St Cambs CB2 3HX, UK

Schedule: 

1.  16:10 - Meet at G block to pick up equipment.
2.  16:20 - Get bus into Cambridge centre.
3.  16:40 - Start filming in Sidney Street alleyway.
4.  17:20 - Start filming in Sydney Street road.
5.  18:00 - Pack up equipment.

If Raining:

1.  16:10 - Meet at G block to pick up equipment.
2.  16:20 - Get bus into Cambridge centre.
3.  16:40 - Start filming in Sidney Street alleyway.
4.  17:20 - Film road shots in alleyway.
5.  18:00 - Pack up equipment

Location Recce

This is our location idea for our busking scenes, the location is fairly central in Cambridge but is not too busy to the extent where we would not be able to film a clear shot. 

Health and safety issues may be the fact that cars sometimes go down the road, and as our filming equipment would have to be set up partially in the road for certain shot distances and angles. One factor that is helpful to us though is that cars rarely go down the street as it is one way.

This is our location idea for our first shot where the busker gets up from in between the bins at the start of our music video just before the song begins. This location will be suitable for our shots as we need a rough alleyway which is dark and deserted to film these shots as it gives the video narrative straight from the moment the video starts. 

Health and safety issues could include overflowing rubbish near the bins, rats or mice down the alleyway, slippery surfaces, sharp objects, bikes and pedestrians. 

Andrew Goodwin's Analysis

Andrew Goodwin created points that should be looked at when analysing a music video. These points range from genre characteristics to voyeurism so there is a lot to be analysed throughout a video but not all videos try to include these points with some directors trying to challenge these points and I will know explain each one of these. The first one of Goodwin's points is genre characteristics and this is whether a video includes common traits of the genre that the artist is included in such as Rock, Rap, and Folk Rock which is the genre of our song, Holes. The second point is the relationship between the on screen visuals and the lyrics. This where the on screen visuals link in to the lyrics of the song and this helps to create a narrative in the video which might be what we do in our video as the song we picked has lyrics that would be easy to create into a narrative in our video. Goodwin's third point is the relationship between visuals and the music which is where the on screen visuals represent what is happening in the music such as it slowing down or it speeding which would reflect in the shot at this point in the song. The fourth point by Goodwin is the need to sell the artist who is performing and this is reflected by the shots, angles and narratives in the video as this can determine the image that is shown to the audience and this is what will ultimately determine how well the artist will sell. Goodwin's fifth point is intertextuality which is when you make links to another product or text made before you have made your original product. For example if we used this in our video then we could use something similar to what someone else has already used in a music video such as  a similar performance seen to the person who originally sang the song we are using, Passenger. Goodwin's final point is voyeurism which is when a artist or band is seen in a sexual manner and is objectified in a sexual way. This point only applies to some genres of music such as rap and R&B and not to others such as Classical and Folk Rock, which is the genre our song is in so we are very unlikely to put voyeurism into our video.