lighting research

 The lighting for our video will vary as our models are of different races and through our research we have developed a sense of awareness that different lighting works better with different skin tones, our
research helps us determine how to use the lighting in order to create the right tone yet also capture the model correctly. 
This video promotes his feelings as it appears dark and dismal, this emotion is enhanced by his gestures and the close up of his head in his hands. We will do something similar to this when we create his conscience in a scene, he will use his hands and facial expression to create the tone as he will shut his eyes and drop his head in his hands. We will also experiment with a blue gel over the lens of the camera that reflects the mood.The black and slightly blue areas will create a cold tone that reflects his depression and his reflective mood.

These shots use a red tint over the camera lens which is a stark contrast to the blue tint that comes before these scenes. The colour red is brought in through the lighting, the colour alcohol and the red cups, showing the use of mise en scene. This makes the scenes appear quite ominous as red is related to danger and sinister moods. We will use red cups in our video as a lot of our research uses them in parties, we will have some girls wearing red and we will use a red gel over one of the cameras to get footage with a red tint as well as normal footage from the other cameras This is how we will show our use of mise en scene as we are taking everything into account from make up to props and making sure they co-ordinate in order to get the best possible effect. As it will be a party in a dark room the light source will be minimal with only fairy lights hanging up therefore the red tint will not be too overpowering or bright

As our message is blaming the party and his drinking for our models depressive state we will therefore highlight the red around him and we will practice using torches that have a red gel around them to determine whether we can create a slight red light to ease the red scenes into the video in a way that will relate and will not appear too bright as we want to keep the dark tone.

I used this video as research into how an enigma is shown. We are using a girl similar to this video. This woman is shown in white and it is blurred to show a fuzzy image to emphasize that he is just a fabrication of his mind. Using this research as inspiration we will blur the footage we use of the girl as it will show her existence is questionable as the picture is not

as clear as the others. We will put her in clothing that does not suit the rest of the footage such as a white dress when she is in the bath and school uniform in the images of her. She will only ever appear when he is seen to be thinking therefore showing how he produces her with his thoughts. His facial features when he thinks he sees her at the party will show disbelief as if he knows she could not be there, this will ensure the audience is aware of what she is in the video and will translate the question of who is she through the video as we would like it to be portrayed as a mystery, keeping people intrigued.