Planning mise-en-scene Miss Georgiou

Mise-en-scene is extremely important within my thriller film because it includes all the features that are required to a film. Mise-en-scene contains Setting and Iconography, Costume, hair & Make up, Facial Expressions/Body Language, Lighting and colour, Positioning of characters and/or objects so therefore I will be discussing these and how my mise-en-scene is conventional to a thriller film and also how the audience will build a relationship with my thriller.

 

Looking at the settings and iconography within my thriller, it includes a house as the setting. The reason for using this setting is because it creates a sense of reality and therefore makes it more believable so it appeals more to the audience because people do see their house's as a place of safety so by showing the status of safety is incorrect because of what is going to happen within the thriller it makes the audience more weary and far more interested as they are aware that it could concern them, not that it would, but it gives the initial idea to the person therefore creating a tense atmosphere amongst the audience. The iconography of my thriller will contain the everyday kitchen use, for example a knife, a timer, an oven, kettle etc.. all of the regularly seen objects within a household which therefore creates a sense of safety but when this is jeopardised it creates a sense of fear. The use of iconography such as a knife shows typical conventions to a thriller film and is prewarning the audience of sharp objects, or objects that are able to harm and subconsciously tells them that something is going to happen in that specific location or scene.

 

Moving onto costume, hair and make-up it resembles a great contribution to mise-en-scene within my thriller. The variety of costume is going to be an everyday, casual wear. This is to show that the victims in this case are equal to the audience. By having the victims wearing casual clothes and allowing them to be equal to the audience it creates a sense of reality and shows that the events could happen to anyone in the following audience. Looking at hair and make up within my thriller, I feel it shows the characteristics of the characters and demonstrates the personality of a character too. By using make up of a natural like way, or no make up it can represent that there is a neutral person who can be calm and relaxing, and there would be maybe wavy hair to support this connotation, therefore I feel by using the victims in the household to have naturally done hair it could make the audience feel the victims are approachable and allow a relationship between the chracters and the audience so that when something bad happens to the victim they develope more emotion towards the film and so by using these features it cleverly gets the audience alongside the film and involved them more.

 

 

Facial expressions and body language is largely important within my thriller film. This is because it gives the audience an insight as to how each character is feeling and the attitude they take on things. It presents a personal view from the character, allowing the audience to understand them. For example, a close up on a characters face shows the particular expression of emotion that the character is feeling which in the case of a thriller and when used in my thriller, conveys the theme of fear and enigma because you won't see what the character is necessarily scared of. In something like a midshot where body language is frequently shown, even if it doesn't show a facial expression within the shot to help give the audience an insight as to what they are feeling, judging body language allows the audience to see if the person is comfortable with the situation, if they're happy or if perhaps they are infact fearful of a situation within a scene.

 

Looking at lighting and colour within my thriller that my group and I are going to create. Low key lighting will be used because through research I discovered that low key lighting is conventional to a thriller film and so my group and I thought it would be wise to use this. Low key lighting allows a dim focus and allows things within a scene to easily be forgotten and hidden, emphasising the sense of enigma and allowing tension to enter the scene. The colours that I would like myself and the other members of my group to use are mostly neutral colours with the acception of a few bright which we hope to use in order to draw the audiences attention too, for example the wife should be wearing a white apron to show innocent and purity, whilst the weapon that she is using in a regular situation that soon seems to be the weapon the kills her, will be on a red chopping board with the knife resting on top of it in order to gain the audiences attention and subconsciencely lay out the crime scene, but yet when the killing happens, it still shocks the audience.

The positioning of the characters and object will be carefully planned out. It is my intention to make the setting of the thriller come across as quiet small and vunerable so by using, as discussed in the earlier part of this post, specific editing and camera angle techniques it will create the scene to join together and make them feel like how perhaps the character may feel. By having the female victim positioned in the kitchen cooking dinner, in a small and insignificant room it can represent how the female is soon going to be feeling. Therefore because of this I felt that it would be wise if this would be included because it prewarns the audience about a specific character and allows the audience to become familiar with the setting of the scene.

My mise-en-scene is going to be conventional to a thriller film because I have spoken to my group and we have discussed eachothers points and discovered it would be wise to use eachothers idea in order to create a strong piece of work, for example, including a female victim in the opening scene and showing vulnerability, it links to relations with a thriller because it is conventional to find a vulnerable female victim on many cases.

My group and I felt that it would be wise to allow a connection between the audience and the characers within the film for example we felt that to show that the wife does have a family, it opens the door to those who have family and therefore makes the audience feel some sort of sympathy if something was to happen because reality appears in the scene. We felt that the audience could build a connection with the characters by using every day characters with normal homes and normal lives so it relates to the audience and gives them some sort of common ground.