Planning: Mise en scene

Mise en scene

The mise en scene plan to use in my thriller consists of the following:
-Lighting
-Setting
-Iconography
-Costume
-Body language and facial expression

The lighting we are going to use in our thriller is mainly natural and low key lighting. The natural lighting is shown when we will be inside the house of the female victim and also the male character (Boyfriend), because we will be using the house lights to give the audience a calm feel about the situation. We use low key lighting in the park and the unknown location where the victim will get tortured. The lighting in the park will be low key as it is late at night and it is hard to see, this is used to give the audience an eerie feel to what is going to happen. With the torture scene in the unknown location, there will be bright lights when the victim will have the bag on her head taken off to make it seem as if she is being blinded by the light, also as the antagonist is torturing the female there will be a camera shot at a medium size which shows the victim get slapped by a machete and this will be shown as a silhouette.

With what is going to happen in the setting of our thriller, is that there will be three main locations within the thriller, the first location is the house party. We use this because this is conventional because the teenage victim would go to a party which links to the fact that she is young. This is where the danger starts to happen, as the scene develops you see that the victim walks into the park and this is the second main location as the victim gets kidnapped at this point in the thriller. With what happens in the torture scene this is where the main action will happen as this is at a unknown location and this is conventional to the thriller because being in a isolated location makes it hard for a victim to be helped.

The iconography within our thriller is the phone because the victim ignores the text that she receives from her boyfriend to not go to the party. Also as the scene carries through there is the vodka bottle  this is what gets the victim drunk at the house party, this is conventional because teenagers get drunk quite often at house parties. When she is at the unknown location and the antagonist gets close to the victim gets the slap from the antagonist with the machete. As the victim has been knocked out there is a shovel that will be shown to depict the fact that the victim could be left for dead or alive.

The costume of our characters will be represented as conventional with the antagonist as he would be all black and won't be seen in most of the thriller. The boyfriend will be shown as casual, and so would the friend of the boyfriend. But the girlfriend would be shown as sub verse because the clothing that she would wear is revealing in order to show her vulnerability.

Our main antagonist body language that will be shown is that he is strong and tall, to show the strength and the fear that the antagonist can create towards the victim.