Planning the mise-en-scene (Miss Georgiou)

Mise-en-scene

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Settings & iconography

 

Small dark room - For the stalker to have pictures up of the girl and to do things like burning the victims  photo and cutting his hand etc. We also chose a dark room to have low key lighting and to create a shadow seeing as we are going to keep the stalkers identity hidden. This is conventional to a thriller movie because its dark and small and it makes the scene look more intense. Also because we will use low key lighting it creates a shadow which makes the scene look more effective because you can see the stalkers shadow on the wall.
Dark abandoned room - For the victim to wake up in so it makes the audience think that she doesn't know where she is, so it creates suspense. Also to create a shadow of the stalker behind her to build tension. This is conventional because the audience will see its an abandoned room and that would build more tension for the audience.

Forest - For the victim to walk through when she gets stalked and captured. This is a very good location to use for a thriller because its a very isolated and dark area where not many people go so it always creates enigma for the audience. This is conventional because its isolated and dark and the audience all know that in a forest if something happened no one would know. So its a conventional location.

Mobile phone - So the victim can recieve random text messages from the stalker to emphasize the fact that she is getting stalked. This foreshadows that something bad will happen later in the thriller opening.

Books - For the girl to pick up from her friends house while she is getting stalked.


Rope & Duct tape - To tie the victim up when she is captured and to restrict her movement when she is in the abandoned room. This is conventional to a thriller because it is used to restrict the victim from any movement and from her ot be heard by anyone.


Knife - For the stalker to cut himself in the first scene to show the audience how crazy this man is and to make the audience thinking about what is going on. This is conventional to a thriller because a knife is a very dangerous and sharp object which could kill someone and is used more then guns in thriller films.

 

Lighting & colour

 

In our thriller opening we will be using low key lighting for most of our scenes. The only time we will not be using low key lighting and will be using high key lighting instead is when the victim is walking to her friends house to pick up some books. because at that moment everything seems pretty normal.
We decided to use low key lighting in our thriller opening because it makes everything seem more scarier when its in the dark and its also a better way to create shadow seeing as we will be hiding the stalkers identity through out. Low key lighting would also helps us to keep the stalkers identity a mystery.

Facial expressions & body language 

 

We will be using a variety of facial expressions through out our whole thriller opening. The facial expressions we will be using are :

• Anger - When the stalker is in the forest staring at the victim walking
• Shock - When the girl turns around and see's the stalker behind her
• Fear - When the victim wakes up totally unaware of where she is after she has been kidnapped
• Confusion - When the girl recieves the text message from the unknown number
• Panic - When the victim is running away from the stalker in th forest

The body language of both the stalker and victim varies during the opening. Whenever the stalker and victim are in a scene together the body language of both actors always shows that the stalker has much more power over the victim. For example when the victim is hiding behind the tree and the stalker comes behind her to grab her, he is higher up then her.

Costumes & hair & make-up

 

The costumes we use are conventional to a thriller because we had the victim dress up in white seeing as it symbolises purity and innocence and the stalker dress up in all black because black symbolises death and murder. We had the stalker wearing a black hoody so he can keep his hood up to keep his identity hidden and to prevent the audience building a relationship with him.


We made the victims hair quite messy seeing as she had been locked in a small abandoned room for about 12 hours and because before that she had been running through a forest etc we said that her hair wouldn't be neat so we styled it messy. The make up we used on the Victim is mostly mascara seeing as it is easier to make it run down her face. We used mascara to show that she had been crying and had been in fear


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Positioning of characters 

 

In the first scene we have decided to position the stalker in the middle of the screen seeing as he is the only actor in the scene and he is the main person the audience should be concentrating on at that moment. This is to show this character importance at this very moment.
In the next scene we show the victim waking up in the abandoned room and here we have positioned her in the middle of the screen yet again seeing as she there are no other actors in the scene and the audience attention should fully be on the victim at this point. This is to show this character importance at this very moment.