Planing lighting and colour-Miss Georgiou

Planning lighting and colour

21/10/2014

Vasil Nikolov

There is a variety of lighting styles that a music video would hold. The lighting used in our music video contains the following types:
1. Strobe lighting
2. High key lighting
3. Low-key lighting.

The lighting that we can use can create an atmosphere within the scene that can allow the audience to connect with Lana. The used lighting can determine the type of person that we want to attract as different lights are used in different genres of music.

The use of high key lighting is used in open areas as the natural light from the sun can represents her warm feeling towards the guy she likes and can also be understood as being free.

The high key lighting is also known as a naturalistic lighting within our music video. It is conventional for the indie genre music as it is simplistic to make and gives the audience more information about what is happening in the scene. Nevertheless, other forms of lighting are going to be used…light effects such as: fireworks, flares or sparklers would look subversive to the conventions of an indie genre. This is due to the music video being simplistic so that the viewers are able to understand the narrative with ease. This would allow the viewers to feel more engaged in the narrative as they are given the opportunity to understand more of the video sequence.

The other type of lighting we will rely on is low key lighting. The main footage that will contain low key lighting is going to be the close-ups of Lana Del Rey in a depressed manner which would help to create an atmosphere with which, we can build a relationship between the audience and Lana emotively. Furthermore, low key lighting creates a sense of enigma as it does not give away precious information such as the surroundings and keeps the audience in constant demand for more info regarding herself. Our music video follows a love story which should help to build up a romantic setting and atmosphere in order to intrigue the more romantic type of a woman/man. Thus the use of low key lighting helps to represent our artist`s reflection of emotions (mainly negative) and builds a relationship between the artist and the audience.

Colours are another key in the implementation of a successful music video as they send of a set connotation with which the audience understands the set message that is given off the colour. The use of colours such as Blue, send of the connotation of sadness or being distant from everyone else. This shows to the audience what type of person the artist is.

Following the last meeting that we held, we agreed to use a filter known as yellowed tape. As we wish to separate the real time sequences from the memories of the artist, we wish to use it in a similar way to another of her songs “Video Games”. Thus the filter portrays the happiness of the artist. Therefore, the filter represents the artist`s feelings when she was in love. This type of filter adds to the vintage style of Lana.