Mise-en-scene

Location;

The beginning of our film is based in Adam's house to create the idea of the girl waking up in the morning in a confused and paranoid world. The use of a home scene creates a false sense of normality in the scene, however the beginnings of whats to come is first seen within the house scene when Adam's mum picks up a biscuit and eats it.

We then moved to our outside scenes where the scenes turn more abstract and strange, such as when Indie bumps into someone holding a biscuit/telephone as well as sitting next to someone rolling a biscuit as a cigarette. These outside scenes take the viewer on a journey where they are not sure what is going on. We did the majority of filming in the town of Berkhamsted where we used the people of the town to eat biscuits as the 'spectators' and increase the paranoia of the girl. Shops were also used during our filming such as the inside and outside of Costa and Oxfam as well as Tesco alleyway where the girl is stopped by two men blocking her in the alley way this creates tension and the build up to the paranoia which is something we are trying to create the whole way through. At the end of the video our continuity has been lost slightly due to the snow but this could also be seen as the abstract nature of the video continuing, this fits in time with the song as the nature of the songs slows down the setting of the scenes becomes more relaxed as in the snow. All of our locations were used to add the the abstract nature of the video and create tension of the scenes.

Costumes;

We wanted the costumes of the people to remain as normal as possible as in most of the music videos we studied the costumes have been simple, normal clothes. The girl is seen as putting on a jacket in one of our first scenes and this can be seen as connoting that she is going to leave the house and go on a journey. The people we filmed had normal clothes on as to blend in with the public as well as us asking members of the public to eat biscuits and participate in our filming as to include everyday people of all ages. When she is confronted by the two men in the alley way one has a covered face and is all in black connoting a 'villain' in the scene however the other male is dressed in a uniform making the audience question what he is doing as he isn't your normal kind of villain.

Props;

Due to the title of the song we used biscuits as the props of our filming as well as coffee cups and tables and chairs, many of our props were thinks that were already around us. The change of biscuits was not a conscious choice but in fact the shop where we had got them from had run out of the custard creams we were using throughout the rest of the film, we thought about going to another shop but decided that using another biscuit brand when our protagonist accepts the biscuit would add to the ambiguity for the audience and so therefore this change worked well.