Research Into Similar Products - Inspiration

Although I have done research into props and backgrounds of music videos before, I wanted to look deeper into it as I am coming close to filming the scenes of the video which take place in my own home. I have chosen to look mostly into Placebo videos as they are the most helpful in researching into similar products.

I chose to look at Bosco. In Bosco, the couples bedroom is quite disorganised and casual.

In addition to this, later in the video a small amount of low key lighting is used to represent the protagonists negative emotions. I really like the mixture of both very low-key and high-key lighting that is used earlier (eg. in the first image) in the video. I plan to adapt this to my own filming.

Whereas in "Meds", the bedroom appears quite sterile. 

I will try to use a mix between the two, so I will clear space in my room but keep my books and posters within view, in order to conform to the conventions of alternative rock music videos. 

In STSG, the majority of the rooms shown in the video are rather messy and casual-looking. Naturalistic lighting is used.

I like this effect, and I plan to incorporate it into my music video. 

I will still use low key lighting in the laptop scene as I'd originally planned, but I will also now use naturalistic lighting, and a higher key of lighting in other scenes filmed inside, as it will allow me the audience to see the actors better and shows a wider range of mise en scene.