Planning the Mise-En-Scene (Georgiou)

Planning the Mise-En-Scene

Settings and Iconography:

• Dark abandoned room - We decided to use a dark abandoned room because when the girl wakes up it helps create an enigma to our story line. It hides the details of the surrounding making the victim and audience unaware of where abouts she is.
• Camping - We are going to use a camping scene in our thriller movie because the iconography items such as torches or even camp fires could be our light source. These will act as background and filler lights creating shadows make it seem mysterious. This scene also allows us to use low key lighting that hides peoples facial expressions. This is also a convention to the thriller genre and will be useful for hiding the identity of our stalker.
• Iconography items such as mobile phones - We decided to use a mobile phone in our thriller to highlight to the audience that our victim is being stalked. The girl receives random texts from an unknown number giving a sense of foreboding that something bad is going to happen.
• Iconography items such as ropes - We have chosen to use ropes to tie the victim up when she has been kidnapped and put in an isolated dark room. This is conventional because the audience can she that she is trapped and the antagonist has done this to her.

Lighting and Colour:

• Low-Key lighting - We decided to use low-key lighting in our thriller because it is easy to create shadows which keeps the audience in suspense. It also helps conceal the identity of the stalker which keeps the enigma of who is it.
• Colour black and white - The stalker will wear a black hoody to highlight to the audience the character they play. This is conventional because the colour black connotes bad and death. To show the audience which character is the victim she is going to wear a item of white. This connotes her innocence highlighting that she is the victim in the situation.

Facial Expressions and Body Language:

• Facial expressions of shock, panic, fear - When the victim wakes up and realises what has happened and that she is tied up she begins to panic. The audience will be able to see this through the facial expressions of the character. The victims eyes will be wide open to highlight her fear.
• Body Language - The victims body language shows the audience the hierarchy of power between the characters. This will be done through making the victim curl up with her hands and feet tied giving the impression the victim is smaller than she is. This is conventional because it highlights the fact the she is trapped and has no control.

Positioning of the character and objects in the scene:

• The characters positioning - The Victim will be positioned in the centre of the screen to show her importance and the stalker will be positioned at the side. This make the audience suspicious of the characters and shows who is the protagonist and the antagonist.

Costume and Make-Up:

• The victim - The victim will be dressed in school uniform to make the audience see that she is a student and just an every day teenager. However when the girl wakes up the victim will have dark circle around the eyes to show exhaustion and struggle. This is conventional because women are seen as the typical victims because they are perceived to be the weaker gender.
• The Stalker - The stalker is going to where a black hoody to hide the facial expressions. This is conventional because it prevents the audience from building a relationship with them and shows they are the antagonist.

Overall, i think our groups mise-en-scene is conventional because all five areas have been displayed in our thriller to help keep the audience in suspense. The audience will be able to tell who the antagonist and protagonist is due to the colours they are dressed in and can build a relationship with the victims through their facial expressions. Each code and convention help contribute to the suspense making the film a good thriller.