Planning Mise - En - scene - Miss Georgiou

Mise-en-scene is a French term meaning 'what is put into a scene or frame' and can also be defined as the arrangement of the scenery and properties to represent the setting. Mise-en-scene can be broken into several different categories, these are: setting and iconography, costume, hair and make-up  facial expressions and body language, lighting and colour as well as the positioning of characters. These aspects work together to create the right atmosphere for the scene and create suspense and tension in the context of a thriller film. The elements of Mise-en-scene are pointers of what the genre would be and what the audience would expect to see in the film.

First of all, we are setting our opening scene in an forest and an old abandoned building. We are using these as out main two as this kind of setting is conventional to the thriller genre as its an unknown place, which can make the setting an easy target.

Next we focused on the characters, we knew it would be hard to get a big group of actors together and we also researched and found that within an opening scene usually there is only two or three characters. We decided to have the main two characters as a girl and one a boy. A female victim is conventional to a thriller as they come across weak and feeble. However we didn't want to make it out that just woman can be vulnerable, therefore, Noah is first to be killed off. As well as the two main characters,  there is a mystery unknown character, we do not see their face or any colour on them.  

As we are filming our opening scene in a forest we felt that there was not a lot that we could do with our lighting. However if we were to go to the forest as it is about to get dark hopefully we will be able to have a dull dark low light. I think this is key to our thriller as it creates suspense and a sense of the unknown towards the audience.