Planning the mise-en-scene

                        Planning the mise-en-scene

The mise-en-scene within our thriller film has been discussed in detail, we want to ensure that we have used all the different area containing that conventions of a thriller film. The areas of mise-en-scene are setting and iconography, costume, hair and makeup, facial expressions and body language, lightening and colour and finally positioning of the characters.  

As a group we decided out setting/location for our thriller film will be in a forest that goes into a open field, we have chosen this as we feel that it is a good convention of a thriller as it adds mystery, also it will make the audience think about why a vulnerable girl is walking alone in a forest. A part why we chose the forest/field is because our questionnaire results came out that people within our target audience wanted a field for the setting of out thriller film. The image below shows the location that we want to use for the location of our thriller film.

We also decided that the iconography that we would use during out thriller films would be a mask for the attacker, baseball bat and pictures of the victim that the attacker is looking at. We have chosen a mask for the attacker to wear as we feel this will create mystery within our thriller film, we have also used this so our attacker is hiding his identity as we feel this will leave the question in the minds of the audience "why is the man attacking the girl, do they have a connection somewhere?", we have done this to create suspense within our thriller film. We have used a baseball bat as the weapon as we feel it is conventional to a thriller film, and we chose it because our age certificate is 15 so we don't want to use to much violence. We have chosen to use pictures of the victim because we want to show to the audience that he has thought about the attacker, we also want to use it to show enigma. Also during the flash back where the pictures are going to be used we are going to have other weapons like a knife and a gun, so it makes the audience on edge about what weapon he is going to use, also we are going to use a Stanley knife to show the attackers intentions  The picture below shows the bat and mask, it also shows how the attacker will wear the mask.

We have discussed carefully about what costume, hair and makeup our attacker and victim will have within our thriller film as we want the audience to spot who is the attacker and who is the victim easily. We have chosen to use dark clothes for the attacker because we think this is conventional to a thriller film, and we will use light colours for the victims, for example in the film prom night the killer is wearing black clothes and the victim is wearing dark clothes.

We are going to use facial expressions and body language to show how the victim and the attacker is feeling. We are going to have close ups to show how the victim feels when she first see's the attacker, it will also make the audience feel sorry for the female victim. We are going to show the body languages of both characters using mid and long shots, so we will be able to see what is happening in their eyes and it will also make the audience how the characters are feeling.

The lighten for a thriller film will be high key as we will be using the sun as out key light, we want this so  the audience can see everything clearly. We are going to try to use dark natural colours when the victim is walking through the forest, we are going to try and use the forestry to block out a bit of the light from the sun.

Through out thriller film we will using different positions of the characters to show how weak the female victim is and we are going to use strong positions for the attacker to show the dominance of the attacker as we feel that the audience will be drawn to the characters by doing this.