The details of locations we used for our music video.

1. The first scene of the bedroom.
One of the features of the room
This first scene
we had at the start were these
cardboard daisies which I had where the character
made to reinforce the lyrics and was in this bedroom
song title throughout the video, it had to convey the
they also make a re appearance feeling of a young
later on within the fantasy girls bedroom.
room. The reason behind these
were that as well as reinforcing
the title they also worked as a
symbolism of purity which is the
impression that you get of a
young child who is untainted
and not yet familiar with the
harshness of reality.
This bedding played a
vital part in the image
that we wanted to
convey within the first
The rest of the scene within
scenes of a child's
this shot were made up of
bedroom as it made up
various scattered children's
most of the scene in
toys from soft toys like hello
the first shot and so
kitty to small plastic shoes
took up most of the
and a jewellery. Every
attention of the
object played an important
audience.
part in conveying a
message.

2. Tea party in the fantasy/dream room.
This was the second location in which the character would discover and wander around Reappearance of the
before trying to escape from the confusion. Therefore we chose to keep an element of daisies reinforcing
mystery. the title and purity
behind the lyrics of
the song. The
The reason behind placing of the daisies
the dolls being to symbolise as if
present was for the they would be
stop motion part of growing out of the
our filming as we skirting board
would later have
them interact with
and chase away the
main character who
stumbles upon their
party and interrupts. The appearance
of the teddies not
only symbolises
We left the black childhood but
sheet ,that was also adds to the
originally meant mystery of the
to create the fantasy and
illusion of a black dream like room
floor, ruffled at as they are placed
the edges as we as if having been
felt that it added attending a tea
a superficial edge party .
to the setting as if
this entire room
could be peeled
away and that The tea cups and biscuits were also part of the mis en scene as we felt
this dream like that the tea party would look strange had there not been anything else
vision that our such as biscuits present, another reason was that due to the bears not
character was having joints and separate limbs it made it difficult to make it seem as if
seeing was slowly they were smoothly moving and decided on making the biscuits come
coming apart. to them. Later on we also changed the dolls attending the party.

3. Other
Puzzle pieces and features;
candy canes were
also part of the mis Sticking with mysterious
en scene within the features these photos
dream room as it are also taken from the
matched the lyrics same mystery room that
and went well with our character discovers.
the image we were
trying to create.
The high window allowed us to have
sufficient lighting which we learned The yellow brick road was
previously is very important when also made out of cardboard
filming as it determines the quality of and was present for the
the video. same reasons as the puzzle
There were a variety of different pieces and candy canes, this
puzzle pieces as to keep it interesting also worked in our
and on an abnormally large scale as we advantage as the yellow
didn't want any of the rooms features brick road is very famous for
to necessarily ‘make sense’. being in a fantasy based film
and therefore helped us
convey this message.

4. Last bedroom scene.
This scene is crucial as it is the sole shot the explains why
everything in the video has happened. The reason as to why
she woke up in what was once her room as a kid and went
through one door to a strange themed room then through
another door that took her back to where she just came from,
then trying to return to what was familiar only to find that
she’s back in her real bedroom again. This was a lot to convey
in one scene and including so many different emotions made it
reasonably difficult.
We removed all We stuck posters
As well as the messed up
traces of what up onto the wall
posters and disarray of
had once been and slightly
bedding we also felt that
the young girls scrunched and
adding clothes would
room this tore them in
strengthen the teenage
included the places so we
representation and
toys and made could add to the
portrayal of the shot.
a more plain unkempt look of
The messy and dull room. the bedroom, we
bedding worked also felt this was a
towards what we good way to link
assumed was in other media
typical of a and stereotypes
teenager that of a teenager to
took little care in be represented in
their appearance. our mis en scene.