Music video lighting research

Lighting in music videos can vary in colour, brightness and density however this depends on the kind of look a music video is required to obtain, the setting, the genre and what the artist or director wants to portray. Lighting is quite important for setting the mood of the video, whether it be sad, happy or dark. This strongly connects to the mise en scene of the video in portraying a certain atmosphere that the audience will recognise visually.

For the Indie genre, due to it being quite low in budget natural lighting such as sun rays, lighting coming through windows of rooms or buildings and even artificial spot lighting can be used. This is especially for performance aspects in order to enhance the artist's look and make the setting more visually appealing. For example in Indie Rock when the band is shown playing, usually spotlights/artificial lighting is used in the background to make them stand out. Through my own genre of Indie folk/Pop, since I have chosen a local and natural location that I would like to film my music video in, I can use the lighting from the outside of the park. This will have to be done hopefully on a sunny day of which I can take into consideration for my filming schedule.