Mise en scene

Mise-en-scene has a vital role to play within our music video as it is used to portray the status of actors through clothing, show locations and take advantage of the lighting to create a more processional look. Props are also use to provide a more realistic effect and to show the audience what is happening within the music video. These variable have to suit out target audience of 16-24 year old males and somewhat attract the female audience.

Throughout our music video we have used various piece of clothing to show that status of an actor or show what is happening within the music video. For example while French Montana (Aaron) is walking down the road with the secondary main character (Yehya), the clothes they wear suggest that they are quite wealthy as French Montana (Aaron) is wearing a Rolex watch which can exceed prices of £50,000.  Also Yehya is wearing Balenciaga trainers that can cost up to £400, whilst they walk down the street we see them get robbed, the audience know this is a robbery due to the gun and the ski masks the robber as wearing. They also are ‘blacked out’ to hide there identity and to make it easier for them to get away.  This is quite common in a Hip-Hop/Rap music video that features a robbery, for example Lil Bibbys ‘Change’.

The lighting and locations that we have used are generic within our chosen genre and the representations of our artist also correspond to our genre. We have chosen to film the majority of our music video outside, as we believe the natural light works better with our music video better. We have chosen the locations of CrickleWood and Kilburn as the music video follows the plot of a robbery and we needed ‘dark’ and ‘sinister’ looking area.