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How Have I Been Inspired?

Family Portrait- Pink 

Pink's music video for her song Family portrait is another favorite of mine. The video is filmed in a home environment which emphasizes the key concern of the video; family problems. The location for this music video is vital in enhancing the key themes of this video, mentioning ideas about harsh divorces, unsettled children and other family problems. From the music video being filmed in a home, we really get a feel for the characters and Pink's lifestyle creating a personal layer to the video. Pink and her sister are shown in different parts of their house which further emphasize that the issue is a house related incident. Nonetheless this video has inspired us to use a home location as it is proved authentic in demonstrating a key concern close to home. From a video being filmed in a home environment we are able to see an insight into how the character lives as well as specific mise en scene which illustrates character traits subconsciously. 

We have chosen a home location for our music video as it is clear that in a home environment, we believe the characters actions as they are alone in their home environment. This is vital for our choice of a social recluse character who is undoubtedly going to act how he feels comfortable when he is alone in his house. Furthermore,  we will be able to see an insight into character from where he lives.



Location 1:
For our music video we intend to film the doll sequences first on a flat raised surface that is up against a white wall. We need a plain white wall as we intend to use a red filter for the doll sequences and therefore  it will work best up against a white wall. We will need a raised surface to appear as the floor that the young girl is playing on in her bedroom. We therefore have decided that we will be filming in my bedroom on a trunk that is dark brown and is up against a white wall. Luckily on the day we will be able to move my room around so that we have space for all our equipment without getting in the way of our chosen location. Using my bedroom is ideal for what we intend to film as we are able to make it into a young girls bedroom with the use of a red filter.


Location 2:
Our second location is for filming the boys shot as prepares for his date at home. We will be using shots of the outside of Daniel’s house, his kitchen and also dining room, bedroom and bathroom. We have chosen to end with a long shot of zooming out of the boy’s house and therefore the width of the house is ideal for showing the large scale of the house as we zoom out.

The boy’s shrine/admiration shots will be filmed in the kitchen along with the baking shots for the cake. The shots within the kitchen is where the boy will be preparing parts of his date but also admiring his date in a secret hiding place in his kitchen...Creepy! Using the kitchen ensures we are able to use all the regular mise en scene that belongs in a kitchen without having to recreate the kitchen to a specific criteria.  

 Lastly we will be filming the boy laying the dining room table in Daniels dining room. The large table in the dining room is highly significant of the extent that the boy is going to in order to try and make the date go perfectly. Additionally the space of the table suggests a slight awkwardness as it is so long, no one could possibly talk to one another from one end to the other. The dining room is probably the most significant location for our filming as this is the location where the boys mood changes as he realises he has been stood up. With the large space of the dining room we are able to show the cake being destructed and thrown on the floor all across the length of the dining room, theoretically corrupting this location in our sequence.