Charli XCX-Break the rules

Mise-en-scene

Location-The starting and main location of the music video is at a school.It starts off in al hall way then on a track field with a yellow school bus. The yellow school bus and field with stand next to it shows us that this video is set in america .

Costume-The costume of the main 5 people in the video is white top and black skirt to represent school clothing and that they are representing school students.

Camera angles
The video starts of with Long shots which is used to show where they are which is a school and their relationship to one another with is good friends. It also helps to show change of location as they move to a shop and then to a homecoming.
There is also a lot of close-up shots of Charli XCX to show what emotions she is feeling through out the video.
The video is mostly shot at eye level as it is the most realistic angle that shows subjects as we would expect to see them in real life.
There is also some shots of Charli XCX on top of a school bus which are shot at a low angle which portrays her as being more dominant and powerful.

Camera movements
The camera jump cuts in on Charli XCX at the beginning of the video so the focus of the video on her and to make her the person on interests by blocking everyone else out of the shot. There is also pans of each scene to show where they are by fully showing the whole scene.Backward tracking is used to show the direction of the bus they are on aswell as tracking where the camera is following them.

Lighting

Most scenes are outside in natural lighting but some are in low key lighting.

Editing techniques
During the chorus where the song gets faster the shot duration get shorter and straight cuts between every shot.