Lenka - Heart Skips a Beat
This music
video by singer/songwriter Lenka is a key
example of how mise en scene can collaborate
with the subject of the song. The imagery used consists of several medical
based costumes (a mock game of 'Operation' followed by a series of back-up
dancers dressed as stethoscopes), which gives us a literal interpretation of
the lyrics, also used as a title for the song, "My Heart Skips a
Beat".
The video
follows the two widely used codes of close-ups of the singers face and
long shots of the back-up dancers' allowing
the audience to focus both the artist and the more surreal imagery used.
Typical of
its genre, the music video follows the convention of
being both narrative and performative, showing the artist singing along
with her performance in the video.
The colours
used in this music video are also significant; the producers have followed the code of matching colour to the subject, using
mainly blue and white, both of which are commonly associated with
hospitals/medicine, again tying in with the title and lyrics "My Heart
Skips a Beat".
I find this
video interesting because of the way mise en scene
is used to establish a connection between the visuals and the lyrics, which is
a connection I would like to use in my own music video, although I plan on
creating more realistic, believable imagery to fit the honest, down-to-earth
tone of the song I have chosen to use.
You need to put in screen grabs to show what you mean by the colour etc
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