The filmmakers used dark colors, a misty atmosphere, and flashbacks with black and white filters to conform to thriller conventions and make the film's tone dark, intense, and scary. Shadows on the actors' faces in dim lighting added to the mysterious and tense feel. Stereotypes of gangsters and druggies from other films informed the portrayals, including accents, costumes, bruises, and props associated with each role and genre. Locations like a dirty cellar and alleyway matched research on typical settings for torture and drug use scenes.

1. Mise-en-scène

2. The colours we used in our film were dark and gritty
colours to conform to the thriller conventions and make it
look intense and scary as the dark colours connotes with
danger and fear. The room we used had white walls with a
lot of dirt, dirty floors and had a misty feel to it to make
the atmosphere more intense and scary.
We also looked at other codes and conventions of thriller
films and found out that they use flashbacks a lot but also
sometimes have scenes with a black and white filter. So
we decided to mix these two together to make the
flashback scene look more cold and dark.
We found that all these helped conform to a more dark
and dangerous feel and made the torture scene look more
realistic and scary.

3. Due to the light in the room being in the corner,
there was a dark shadow on the characters faces, we
found this very effective as it gave a more
mysterious and dark feel to the characters showing
that they are both hiding something. Also as the
light was very dim it made the room look dark and
more intense which makes the audience sympathise
with the druggy.

4. For our actors, we did some secondary research onto presentations
of Gangsters in Movies and Druggies. We ensured that our actors
followed some of the traits/stereotypes that are usually shown in
movies. For example, we found out that Gangsters have the
stereotype of usually wearing suits, they are foreign, show no mercy
etc. Therefore our actor, Nuri fitted perfectly into this stereotype as
he was tall, big built, had an aggressive nature and we made him put
on a Russian accent to make it more realistic. He showed aggression
when acting such as shouting, grabbing the druggie and no show of
sympathy when hitting him. We found this very successful as it
reflects his personality and the personality of a stereotypical
gangster. His costume will be a dark suit, this connotation is of
someone who is dangerous (because of the dark colour) and rich (as
we usually associate suits with a successful business man). He also
had dark shiny shoes on which again conformed to the idea we were
trying to create.

5. Our other actor was a Druggy, and again we did some secondary
research into the typical stereotypes of druggies in films. We
thought Jack would be perfect to play the role as he was tall and
skinny. However we thought this was not enough, so we added
blood and bruises onto his face to look like he had been abused
etc, also because his face had not been clean it gave the
impression that he was dirty, didn’t wash etc. Which are all
stereotypical traits of a druggy in movies. The clothing he wore
was casual, not expensive clothes, this was because druggies are
usually shown to have no money and scruffy clothes. This gives
the impression that the drug dealer used his money for drugs and
didn’t care about his appearance. Therefore emphasising his
addiction.

6. The location we used was in Adelaide’s cellar. We
thought this location was perfect as we found out in our
secondary research, most torture scenes are done in a
similar location. Inside the cellar it is dark, dirty and
empty. Showing that the druggie is isolated and makes
the audience feel tense and sorry for him.

7. Another location we used was an alleyway behind
Adelaide’s house. This was because her alleyway looked
like stereotypical alleyways where tramps, prostitutes
and druggies usually stayed when we looked at
secondary research.

8. We used props such as hammers, knives etc. This was used to
make the torture scene more realistic and gripping.

9. We also used a syringe, medicine, a small alcohol bottle, spoon,
matches etc. This was all used because they are all
connotations/representations of a druggie and are the main
props used in drug use films (we found this out in our secondary
research) therefore making it more realistic and something our
audience is familiar with, so they know that our movie is about
drug use.