Planning: Mise En Scene - Ms.Begum

Planning: Mise En Scene - Ms.Begum

 

 

Setting

 

Where?

There will be two settings of our thriller. The first one will be at Hazal's House (one of our group members) this is a good place to use as a setting because it has a long set of stairs before you reach the house.

 

Why it is used?

It is used because we intended to use the stairs in order to create a tension build up. We will do this by creating a trail of blood for our antagonist to follow from a first person POV and add in usage of heavy breathing theme music and off screen sound to create affect.

 

What response will this have on the audience?

The affect this will have on the audience is that it will build tension and keep them on edge because as the antagonists breathing (along with the music and off screen sound) gets louder, the trail of blood gets thicker and has more violent blots of it on the floor.

Where?

The second scene we are using is the dark drama room in Oasis Academy Hadley. (Not actual image) This is a good setting because the room is painted in black and it has black curtains that can be drawn to make the room even darker.

 

Why it is used?

It is used for symbolism and to create affect as it represents the darker corners of our antagonist mind and as he is on screen doing weird and disgusting things the darkness of the room makes it easier to understand the abnormalities of the things our character is doing.  

 

What response will this have on the audience?

This creates a gruesome feeling response from the audience because of the sick and twisted music combined with the montage of weird activity and extremely close up shots.  

 

 

 

Iconography

 

What will be used?

 A blood-stained kitchen knife will be used in the process of the film and this will be the murder weapon used to kill our antagonists' younger sister

 

Why it is used?

This is the weapon of choice because using a knife as a murder weapon is seen as a more personal statement and a more physical method of killing someone. We also decided to make it a kitchen knife because it captures the brutality of a tool that is used for everyday purposes which creates a darker connotation for the item because you would have to use quite vicious and violent movements to stab someone with it and a lot of force is used.

 

What response will this have on the audience?

This will put a lot more fear into the audience because the viewing age of the people that can see our thriller is an age rating that has probably used a kitchen knife for cooking before, also they can relate to it because the weapon most used to commit murder for that age range is actually a knife so the fact that they can relate to the iconography creates a more fearful response because of their own imagination. 

 

Lighting and colour

 

Where it will be used?

lighting and colour will be used in the opening scene when our antagonist finds his murdered sister in their house and also in the blackout scene when he is in the drama room.

 

Why it is used?

It is used to captivate the mood and the intentions of each scene 

 

 

What response will this have on the audience?

This creates a manipulative response from the audience that can easily be changed by the primary colour and contrast that is being presented on screen in the film.