Resources for Mise-en-scene

Resources for Mise-en-scene

The locations

Ø House- a house is a place that most people feel most secure making it a very effective setting for a horror film. Filming in a house is typical of our genre conventions as a house is the one place you’re supposed to feel safe but in our film, and in many other horror films, will be presented in the complete opposite purpose. We will be inside so we will not have to worry about a background noise/s.

Props

Ø Knife – this is a classic convention of the genre, we may have the doll use this to make it more alive and scary. For safety reasons we will only use it when needed and only inside.

Ø Doll – the doll is the where the main horror aspect is focused on. We will use lighting and cinematography to bring it to life.

Ø Fake blood – as this is a horror film and there is death involved it is typical to have blood as it goes with the genre conventions of the Horror genre.

Costume, hair, make-up

Ø Chris will be wearing white this portrays him to be an innocent person in the film and “White” symbolises purity and peace.  Kenneth is wearing nothing specific to the genre so he dons casual clothes

Ø Samuel will be wearing black clothes. This identifies him as targets as the colour "black" has connotations of danger and death.
    
 

Lighting

We are going to be using low key lighting for our film because it is typically used in horror films to add a more effective effect. We are going to try and do this by using the lights available in the house for example lamps and torches.