Mood board:

By being allocated a style of music, country and western, we had to design a mood board displaying images associated with that type of music as well connotations and information. This has enabled me to gather a sense of the style of music familiarising myself with what it is and how we can display this through our images towards the audience. It has allowed to me to focus on all the decisions of Mise En Scene, why they were picked and how each of their roles bring together the final piece of media. From focusing on country and western our group learned that the connotations given off to the audience are: chilled, farmer, love and hate as well as a simplistic and natural feeling. Now understanding the country and western genre of music will allow me to focus on these points and consider each individual aspect to include within our photos we take.

Our Photos:

 After understanding the genre of music we were allocated to focus on, we then went forward and gathered all elements of Mise En Scene in order to take photos. Throughout this process we considered costumes, props, lighting, photo angles, facial expressions, hair and setting in order to portray the country and western music within our final product. Each part of the Mise En Scene was chosen carefully to present the right connotations to our audience.

In order to do so we asked peers to right down connotations that came to mind when they saw our cover star dressed in their costume:

The connotations we were given are shown above on post its; farmer, relaxed, chilled, which are all related to the music genre Country and Western that we were focusing on. This allowed us as producers to reflect on our work and to see how the audience decoded our character to fit the music genre.

Final Photos: