Colour and lighting. PLANNING

Colour within our music video

Planning the colour within a music video is hugely important as colour can have a big effect on the way a person perceives something and the emotions that are put across. Colour can be used to enhance a certain mood or tone within the music video; however it can also be used very effectively to develop and add to the mise en scene of the set.
Colour in our music video

· Due to the very happy feel of the song there should be a lot of colour used, especially bright colours as they reflect the mood of the song perfectly.

· As well as using bright colours in the piece initially, we can enhance or change the colours in the editing stage, perhaps in parallel with the music.

· The random objects that are needed for the photos to move in and out of can be colourful purely to add extra colour to the scene, we could use items such as headphones, gameboys, toys or vinyl.

· We can use different settings on the canon camera we are using in order to achieve a better overall effect than would be possible without it as we will get brighter and sharper colours.
Hopefully this combination of ideas will help use to use colour to its full potential and enhance our music video perfectly, reinforcing the idea of happiness.

Lighting within our music video

· We will do some test shoots to see what we get the best result with, however some bits; such as when our main character is walking around in the day have to be filmed in actual daylight so you get the impression of time going by.

· If we lose natural light, we have the option to stop filming and resume filming another day, or we could switch to an alternative artificial light source.

· Our final option in terms of lighting is to use the flash that is provided on the canon camera however this could prove problematic as we might get a reflection of the flash on the glossy photo paper, so we would have to be careful about this.