Mise en scene in Nelly - Dilemma ft. Kelly Rowland



The mise en scene in this music video is close to the kind of mise en scene that I want in my music video, also it is the easiest type of mise en scene as I have all the resources in order to master it. This mise en scene is mainly just a regular town. I have chosen to study this mise en scene because my song is about the hood and what bad things happen within it. This song shows what an American hood will look like.

Lighting
It seems as if the music video is using natural daylight lighting, there could be minimal soft light when the artists are in shade. At night there is more low key lighting. This lighting is more angled and hard light directed towards the focus of the shot. In this music video lighting isn't really used as much as it could have been.

Scenery
Everything physical within the scene is very middle class, not very rich but not very poor, so it relates to the majority of people. They are trying to put across a normal urban environment where the two protagonists are normal people with a dilemma, which is also the title of the song. The characters don't particularly interact with much of the props an scenery. I believe this to be because it is a love song and they want to focus to be on the two protagonists focusing on each other in their life, not what is around them.

Costumes
It seams to be that woman are the ones wearing jeans or denim on their bottom half. Then on top the women generally wear an item of clothing that shows of their physical features. Men wear very oversized clothes, generally with a fat beak or a bucket hat. These clothes are always paired with any sort of non-denim trowser.
An additional style of clothing found in this music video is basketball kit, these clothes are also extra long like their main style but stand out more, also it seems to be that whatever clothes they wear they need to be oversized for the individual wearing them. Along with this genre's male more casual outfit, comes with some rings for each hand usually quite big and outgoing.





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