Use of mirrors

We strongly used reflections in our thriller production and found using reflections in production makes a strong visual images. Having looked at the music video, 'The Beat - Mirror in The Bathroom' I really liked the use of mirrors in the music video. When shooting the lead singers part in the music videos I decided to use a mirror and film behind Issy singer, filming her reflection. Although these shots are very static I think they are still make a strong visual impact. The use of Mirrors also appears in 'Madness - Our House', where there is a shot of one of the band members gelling over their hair and putting a hat on, influenced by this idea when constructed a similar shot of one of the band members looking in a mirror and doing his hair. This idea then developed further we began to think about showing someone getting ready, a ska fan putting on there braces etc, this would both establish the generic image of ska as well as appealing to the target audience. We used a shot of Issy get ready in a mirror, and put this at the beginning of the video.

Still from 'Madness - Our House'
















'The Beat - Mirror in The Bathroom'

Screen shot from our music video, lead singer singing into / looking at herself in a mirror.



Locations- Urban and British culture./ signifiers

To establish the urban location, which is generic to ska and signify British culture in our music video we went out and did some shooting around some estates in Norwich and general run down areas, we where particularly influenced by the beginning of 'This is England'.

Music videos such as 'Madness's - Our House'. We have used urban areas in Norwich such as Anglia Square, where we used an area of graffiti as a back drop to our mise-en-scene/ shooting, the graffiti again established the urban location.

'Still from Madness's - Our House' features show industrial urban images, and creates a strong sense of community.

Still taken from the beginning of 'This is England'.

Anglia Square - graffiti establishing urban location generic of ska