Nerdcore - Mes en Scene

Though nerdcore rappers rhyme about anything from politics to science fiction, there are some perennial favorites in nerdcore subject matter, including Star Wars, role-playing games, science, fantasy and computers. There are hip hop artists who have recorded compositions which focus on similar topics, but who are not generally considered nerd core, this may relater to Dan because he only uses certain aspects of the genre. However the artist doesn't have to concentrate on those topics to be nerdcore: most of the songs by Frontalot do not focus narrowly on stereotypically nerdy topics. The difference is largely one of self-identification; the group Blackalicious does not identify as "nerds", while Frontalot does. My artist claims to be 'nerdy' but doesn't typically identify himself as a nerd. This is important for the music video because my artist has to be presented as nerdy without the nerdy identity, this makes it very hard to think about mes en scene because the artists identity is a strange mis of typical hip hop and nerdcore. 

 Within the Mes en scene of this Nerdcore artist there are many old bits of technology that denote the artists nerdyness. Throughout this music video we can see old keyboards, computers and folders. The setting of the whole video seems to be his parents basement, which is something closely considered with nerds. The clothing of the artist is coloured very plain this shows off his apparent dull personality. Furthermore the glasses specifically shout nerd to the audience. The reason I am looking at this is because I want to tease the audience with the mrs en scene because they would be expecting these types of props and costume in nerdcore. However because my artist isn't closely linked to the genre I have more flexibility with hat I put in the frame. I can either focus on the character that Dans pretending to be or I can choose to look at Dan himself.