Mise-en-scene within our film opening

The Location:

We decided that the location of our film opening would be an alleyway because even if it was daylight alleyways can be seen as quite frightening as they are quite a narrow and confined space which are difficult to get out of in most cases as you are only usually able to go up or down. This is where the victim would be killed as the particular alleyway that we chose is quite confined and in this case, you are only able to go up or down so if someone was walking towards you or behind you you're only able to escape with one way out. We didn't only use the alleyway as a setting, even though this was the main one we also used a small cul-de-sac/side street to film the beginning of our film opening to show the contrast in setting when the victim is with her friends in the street to when she is on her own in the alleyway.

Costumes:

We decided that the three young girls/friends would be wearing normal everyday clothing for their costumes as they were portraying that they were walking home from school on a usual day. The still image on the right shows from left to right: Friend 3, Friend 2 and Friend 1 (the victim) walking home having a conversation, however within this shot we decided that the victim would be carrying a bag as it singles her out from the two friends and she clutches it as if she is wary of her surroundings, especially when she is in the alleyway in case someone approaches her and attempts to grab her bag.

We also decided that the antagonist/murderer would wear a plain clack costume, including a black hoodie and black trainers/sneakers as they're practical and black as a colour can represent danger and also mysteriousness, also when in the dark, black is a good colour to wear if you wanted to go unnoticed or blend in with the darkness. We decided that this character would have their hood up when they are in contact with the victim as it shields their face and again adds the aspect of suspense within the scene.




Props:

 Finally we chose to use simple objects for props, the main ones being a fake/toy knife for the murder weapon when the antagonist attacks and murders the victim, fake blood to create the effect of the victims stab wound once the murderer and the knife has made contact with the victim, and a mobile phone as we have to use phones throughout our film opening as we will include shots of texts messages/notifications within the scenes so the audience can get more of an idea about what is happening.