Planning mise-en-scene- Miss Georgiou

Planning mise-en-scene

Mise-en-scene is very important in any film but massively in thrillers. Mise-en-scene includes 5 main things which are lighting,setting and iconography, costume and make up, facial expression and body language and positioning of of objects and characters.These things can make a film a success or failure and can completely change the audiences reaction to the film.An example would be a film with bad costume's and bad iconography so the audience cannot believe the things that are happening, this makes the scene feel unreal.Although if a film has very good iconography it can make anything seem believable. 

We have many different aspect of mise-en-scene in our own clip.For our setting we have a forest,car park and a tower these are quite a range of setting and we believe it will create interest for our clip.Also it offers differences from just the stereotypical forest which people could have become accustomed to and people may now be less scared of as they have seen it so many times.Our iconography is a knife and a mask ; we used a knife as we did not want to deviate too much from a normal thriller and it is much more dramatic than a gun which makes for a better villain who is more physically intimidating.Our mask is used as it hides the killers identity which is very important for us, we believe it creates a good sense of mystery to our clip and helps keep it true to the thriller genre.

Our costume's are  just normal clothes as it make it easier to relate to the characters and can make it more personal to the audience.Also it makes the killer much more scary as it could be any normal person who could do it and the same wit our victim who could be anyone.Our lighting will primarily be low key as it keeps up the idea that it is a spooky, dangerous area and makes the audience have a sense of what will be following.Also it makes the audience feel more unsettled just from how dark the film is which is key for our thriller film and anything that can add to that is good.Also Our facial expression and body language will be different from the normal thriller film.Our killer will be calm and this makes the killer much more inhuman and  this is often used as it makes it much better for the audience to watch.Our victim will be quite strong with a straight face at the start but she will start to seem less and less as the scene continues and eventually breaks down crying and wailing at the end.

Our mise en scene points are very conventional as most of ours have been in other successful thriller films which we have taken influence from for our thriller. Just some of these films are Se7en,  the scream series,Shutter Island and Phone Booth,  many conventions such as low lighting are in all of them and is clearly a convention of all thriller films so these are the strongest. This will make our film so much better and help make it seem more professional compared to other thriller films.

Our mise en scene builds a relationship with the audience in many ways such as putting normal clothes on the victim which makes her seem like a part of the audience and they therefore care about her. This will make the things that happen to her much more shocking and true to life. Another is how she is female and this immediately makes people feel sorry for her as she is in a venerable position next to a male killer due to his physical size.All this would help build a connection between the audience and the character and improve the scene which it is in dramatically , also it makes a film so much better when a audience care for the characters.