Mise En Scene

Mise-En-Scene:  

 

Costume: The costumes for the actors in this scene will be planned carefully to suit the role they will be playing. The victim is an everyday person, this means we thought it’d be better to place them in casual clothing that you see people wearing on a daily basis. This was because we wanted to make people feel closer to the role and feel that they can relate. More importantly, the killer in the sequence will be wearing all black, along with a gas mask. The all black clothes will help to increase the conventions like intimidation behind the character. Moreover, the gas mask will be used to help add mystery to the killer because we become unaware as to who is behind the mask, this also helps to intrigue the audience to watch on and see if there is a grand revile. Another reason we put the killer in this costume was because in mot thrillers with a sub-genre of a psychotic / horror, the antagonist usually wears dark and mysterious clothes to help hide their identity.

 

Lighting: We plan to do all our filming in the daylight, this is because if we were to film at night; the camera quality would therefore be degraded. Taking into consideration our storyline and plot; we will have to darken the lighting and use special effects to edit the shots used. This is because having all daylight, bright shots, it will cause the shots to become less powerful and to become less effective. If there is a killer following someone around the woods, you expect to see darkened images to set an atmosphere that increases suspense and tension throughout. If the lighting is used correctly, we can help to emphasise the killer’s power and exaggerate the emotions throughout the audience helping to further intrigue them and grasping their attention to ensure they watch on.

 

Actor: In our opening sequence, we will only have two actors (Oliver Anderson and Jack Redman). One of these actors (Jack) will play the killer. This is because we believed that he would be able to create a more intimidating character because of his ability to play a role with more confidence with less chance of being easily distracted. Furthermore, he also played a killer in a previous school project. We thought this would be helpful because he will be more likely to understand what makes a role more intimidating and will be able to keep the role interesting and realistically believable. The other actor (Oliver) will be playing the victim. He was chosen for this role because he is not taller than the killer so will help to make the sequence more realistic. He is also quite a serious individual, this makes him more likely to play the role without spending too much time getting distracted and doing something else. The victim’s character needs to be taken seriously because it will be the main thing the audience will see, it will also be the role the audience will be most likely to be able to relate to. So, facial expressions, posture and other features to the acting will have to be as high quality as possible so the role becomes realistic in the audiences eyes and helps to make them feel the emotions of the character.

 

Make up: For our opening sequence, there is a low chance we will actually need to use any makeup because there are not many places that it will look realistic. In some places we may end up adding some fake blood to suggest some points to the audience and intriguing them further into the film. We will also use it to help boost the conventions like death and implicating something bad has happened. Furthermore, we may also use some black makeup to go around Jack’s eyes so that when he puts the mask on, the skin around his eyes is not visible. We think this could be a good idea because it helps to further hide his identity and therefore increase the tension and intimidation behind the character.

 

Props: Throughout our opening sequence, we are going to use a small variety of props that we think will help to intrigue the audience and interest them into paying closer attention to what is going on. The first pro we are going to use is the gas mask, this is because it is one of the most powerful and symbolic pieces of equipment we could’ve come across. This is because gas masks symbolise danger and in some cases death so seeing this in the opening sequence implies something bad is going to happen and someone is possibly going to come into a dangerous situation. Furthermore, it helps to signify the psychotic nature that is hidden behind this sequence, therefore foreshadowing to the audience what is yet to come. Another prop we are going to use is a shovel. This is because even this tool is designed to be used when digging and is therefore used in everyday life but suddenly, when placed into a sequence behind this the entire meaning of its use changes. People begin to assume the worst because it becomes obvious that something bad is going to happen and that shovel is not going to be used to dig a normal hole; it may not even be to dig a hole at all, it could become a weapon in the wrong hands. These assumptions help to change the audience’s opinion automatically, they begin to question what is going to happen and this therefore creates tension and suspense throughout.