When filming different locations that would display the different events in their relationship, I wanted to create certain mise en scene that in itself would reflect the mood of the scene. Luckily the days organised for filming became perfect in making this work, with either weather conditions or lighting that worked well with the emotions and action in the scene.
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Overall each of the main scenes created a great pathetic fallacy that related to the emotion of the couple throughout their relationship. obviously some shot needed to be edited to make it easier to view, yet doing this will help the audience understand the course of events in relationship and the exact emotions I wanted to get across to them.
By including an element of nostalgia in the repeated settings but different emotions of my narrative, as well as elements within the scenes, I can class my music video to be postmodern. Jameson's (1998) theories of our cultures 'past becoming romanticised by artistic representation of history that is clouded in nostalgia' can relate to the nostalgic view on the previous events in the relationships I have created in my hyper reality world of this boy and girl. By seeing them drifting apart in the first park pathway scene that contrasts with the second one when they are first going out, it creates a feel of nostalgia, romanticising the better times they had spent together in that park as if it were a distant memory that can’t be recreated in the same way. The same goes for the bedroom scenes, in which the first you see in my video displays them arguing, compared to the second one when they are happily dancing and listening to music. having both scenes filmed in the same location emphasises to the audience the difference in emotions and creates an awe of nostalgia into the lives of this couple which can now not be revisited in the same harmonious way, which the audience themselves could have experienced.
Also my choice in props for the dancing bedroom scene similarly relates with this theory. We see the guy pick out a record and play it to the girl, in which they both get up and start dancing. By including the use of a record player rather than an MP3 or CD player, it is recognised as a music player of the past, and again, the scene becomes nostalgic to the use of this old fashioned way of playing music that is much more romantic than a normal iPod device. As an audience we are saturated in the idea of elements of the past being an exciting way in which to live our own lives, and so by including this, my scene becomes much more effective as a way to reflect the great time the couple are having together.
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