Mise en scene for our film opening

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Mise-en-scene
During our film opening, we must ensure that our mise-en-scene is correct in order to
ensure that the film opening is believable and that it is an accurate piece of work. Mise-
en-scene is analysed using the acronym CLAMPSwhich stands for Costume, Lighting,
Actors, Make-up, Props and Setting. If we achieve to make all of these accurate then
the audience will buy into the film a lot more than if we failed to achieve all of these.
First of all, we have costume. As we are setting our film in the 1960s, we have to
ensure that our actors have clothes that are of the style of that era. If we did not, it
would not make it look believable as the audience would think that we are in another
time period. In order to achieve this, we will make the two gangsters (Wilson and
McKenzie Gray) wear suits as this was typical gangster attire for the time that the film
is set in. A good example of this is Legend as all of the gangsters that are shown wear
nice suits as they show that you are successful and that you have power. In order to
make Detective McCoy look like he is inferior in this situation, we have to make sure
that his uniform (his suit) is scruffy so we need to ensure that he does not have a
blazer on and that his tie is loose and his shirt has been unbuttoned. As we have to
show that McKenzie Gray is a gypsy, we will give him a flat cap in order to try and
show this. We decided that we will do this because in Peaky Blinders you can tell who
the gypsies are because they were wearing flat caps. Hopefully, this will help the
audience distinguish what type of character he is.
Lighting is used in order to tell the tone that the director wants to set in the film. For
example, if the director wants to create an atmosphere of fear then they will have the
scene in low key lighting. This is why it is key that we get the lighting right. In our case,
we will aim to get natural lighting when we are going to be outside as this will show
that when you first see Wilson, he is only a normal man that seems friendly (the natural
light connotes this) but, when we go inside the interrogation room the lighting will
change to low key slightly because this is where the grimy part of Wilson’s career takes
place. What should happen is the audience should see that when they go to the low
key lighting area, something bad is going to happen.
In order to make the film opening believable, we have to ensure that the characters
are gripping and are good at acting or else the piece would be ruined. As a cause of
this, we decided to cast characters that can act and that know how to behave in front
of the camera. In addition to this, we have ensured that we have put the emotions that
they should be feeling in the script so this will help them in how they act. We had to
consider that we were doing a film that obviously will be adults in real life so we decided
to cast people that looked a lot older than they actually are.
Make up will play a large part in our film opening as we are going to have to show that
the detective has been beaten up and cut before we meet him. We will have to use
fake blood and face paint in order to achieve this look and if we don’t then it won’t feel
like the detective is the inferior character in the scene. In addition to this, the gypsy
character (McKenzie Gray) will need blotches of black on his face as they do not
usually live in good living conditions and this will be a good indication of this.
Furthermore, we will have to have fake blood coming out of the mouth of the detective

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when the punch of Wilson is thrown in order to give a realistic punch of a hard punch
that has been given.
Not many props are going to be needed in our film opening. We will only need two
chairs and a table along with a cap gun and a cigarette. The table and chairs would
be needed for the interrogation of the detective. They will have to be plain chairs as
you would not use extravagant chairs in an interrogation. In addition to this, we will
need the cap gun to look realistic as we cannot have an orange tipped gun and expect
it to look realistic. We will also have to look at what guns were ‘in fashion’ for the
gangsters of the 1960s. From looking at films in our genre, you can see that the
German Luger and a Revolver is a gun that is commonly used in gangster films so we
will have to use one of them. Of course, in order to make the gun even more realistic
is by having a non-diegetic sound of a gunshot so the audience will then believe that
the detective has actually been shot. The cigarette will not been in the film for long as
he drops it during the first part of the video. It will be there to represent the era because
almost everyone used to smoke during the 1960’s, which may help people identify with
Wilson because he in the end he is common guy. This will also help the actor playing
Wilson seem older and more mature.
The setting of the film opening will be in a rural village. We wanted it set there because
it gives it a sense of isolation so the interrogation could be done without any witnesses.
The main action happens inside of an out-of-the-way shed meaning that, yet again,
there would not be any witnesses to report the crime. Also, the shed itself gives the
vibe of remoteness because of how worn down it is making it the perfect place to hold
the interrogation.