Filming in the Green Room

I filmed these clips in the green room, because my original idea was to use a keyer on Final Cut Pro to put in a background that would suit the mise-en-scene I wanted to create. However, upon entering the green room I found that there were different coloured paper back drops available to use. 
I chose the black paper to create a very moody and dramatic mise-en-scene, and I used basic, gloomy lighting that would reflect the genre and mood of the song. It reflects the genre because it is still well lit and not depressing as say it may be in a punk rock/emo style video, but similar lighting techniques have been used in existing music videos in the pop and R&B genre that create a sad mood.

I used a keyboard to mimic the look of a real piano, as that is the instrument used in the song I have chosen. I also wrapped the tables the keyboard was sitting on to further make it look like a real piano. Some of the shots I have focused on the keys as opposed to the entire keyboard, so that the main focus of the audience is the artist playing.


To make sure the lip sync matched with the song I wanted to use, I played the song on my mobile phone and got my artists to sing aloud, in order for the lip syncing to look realistic. 

Here are some examples of artists of the same genre in photo shoots with similar lighting. Some of them put a black and white filter on them to add to the mood of the image. I feel like this would be good to use in the piano sequences of my music video because it is effective in creating the mood.