Mise-en-scene

Mise-en-scene refers to all things that are put into the scene, it is a very powerful component of many films as it builds a perception for the audience. For our thriller we needed to think about mise-en-scene because we wanted the audience to see the significance of the scenes.

We realised that when looking at mise-en-scene there are various components so we decided on what needed to be included in each.

• Setting - we decided upon the locations to make sure that they represented the mood to the audience.
  
• Lighting - this was a key element in our film so we decided to focus on representing a contrast between the light park and the dark room where low key lighting would be used.
  
• Costumes - the little girl is going to wear a white dress to show innocence, with pink bows.
  
• Props - we used a baseball bat for the final scene to show the brutality of the father towards the mother so the audience would be shocked by this.
  
• Performance - the girl would be looking sad and lonely so the audience would so empathy towards her. The father would be acting violently so the audience would not like this.
  

Here is a picture of the sort of mise-en-scene we hope to create from the innocent girl;

Here is a picture of what atmosphere the baseball bat in low lighting would create;