Mise en scene post for A level Media

1. MISE-EN SCENE
By Hadley Stones

2. COSTUME

3. Kameron and
Ellias
We will have our two brothers
dressed in black winter coats
and black clothing such as black
boots and trousers. This is to
give a sense of no emotion and
the unknown because I feel that
the colour black connotes that
colour perfectly. We will be
combining the use of winter
coats and black boots to make
him look military like and give
an aspect of force however he
seems like quite an anarchistic
figure.

4. Thugs
◦ The thugs we will be using will be wearing smart but clothes that show some force and they are not to be
messed with. This will include we think stuff such as big black coats formal shoes and trousers and maybe a
shirt tie to give a sort of business but army approach. Also the use of black to connote the unknown, this
being nobody knowing their pasts or how Kameron or Ellias met them to give them move mystery and build
enigma.

5. Hostages
◦ The hostages both men and women will be wearing suits as we feel this would make them smart and show
they are people of business and importance. The suits will be a good contrast to Kameron and Ellias who are
wearing winter coats and also shows that the hence men are a mixture of both sets of Characters with both a
business mind and an anarchistic mind.

6. LIGHTING

7. Interior
◦ The lighting inside the barn will be quite low key as we only have one overhead light but we feel this will be a
nice contrast from the light from dawn we get on the exterior. The low key lighting will be used to portray
the feeling of a enigmatic scene to quest into why Kameron is doing the things he is.
Exterior
◦ Outside the barn in the first few establishing shots will be high key natural lighting from when the sun comes
up which will give us a visual pleasing establishing scene.

8. ACTORS

9. Use of actors and Cast
◦ The use of actors in our film opening will be used effectively in the sense that if we cast the right people to
play the right characters then we feel it will show the characters in the way we want them to come across to
the audience and they will create enigma especially in Kameron and Ellias characters.

10. MAKE UP

11. Make up
◦ The make up we will be using in our film opening will be uses of fake blood and scars and some
bruises to connote the use of violence towards the hostages as well as it being used to create fear.
The heaviest use of this will be in the shooting scene when Kameron shoots one of the male
hostages.

12. PROPS

13. Head Bags for Hostages
The bags we are going to use in our film opening will either
be burlap sacks or black cotton bags. We are doing this
because we wont to generate fear amongst the hostages and
we feel if we actually put the actors with these a sense of
they cant see anything or know what's going on around
them. This will create a distressed feel to the film opening
and also connote fear and anarchy. Which ultimately our
film opening is about.

14. Gun
We will be using guns in the opening of our film to
connote fear amongst the characters in our opening.
Especially towards the hostages by Elias and Kameron.
We are doing this as we said to connote fear and also
because Guns are a key part of the action genre so we
are sticking to the conventions of an action genre in the
sense of guns and violence which is also what they
represent.

15. SETTING

16. Setting
◦ The setting we will be using is an outdoor countryside scene for the establishing shots which will show that
Kameron has taken them away from their natural habitat so to speak and taken them where nobody will look.
This will be used for the opening few shots including the establishing shot.
◦ The next scenes until the title shot will be inside a rusty old barn which is very enigmatic because it creates
the theme of fear and the unknown. It also creates a sense of isolation for the hostages and not knowing
what's outside those doors.