PLanning Mise en Scene-Miss Georgiou

Planing Mise-en-Scene
06.11.2013
Vasil Nikolov

Mise en scene is important as it includes all of the important features that will be required for my film. Mise-en-Scene contains the following categories with rules.

Definitions for the categories with examples:

The first category is called Setting and Iconography ( Setting is filmed on a set, that has either been built from scratch or a great deal of time has been spent in order to find it).
The second category is Costumes and Makeup. With costumes and makeup, the producer of the film has to select different costumes in order to imply the personality of the character. For example,e Jessica Rabbit is portrayed as a red haired beauty wearing a red dress. The colour red would give the connotation of danger to the audience, so they will know that even though she looks innocent, she is a dangerous person to meet.
Positioning of the character within a frame is the next category to explain. With positioning of the camera, the shot can draw the audience`s attention to an important character or objective. Positioning is effectively used when the producer wants to show a relationship between two people. For example in my film, the camera would initially concentrate on the main character and his wife in order for the audience to form a relationship.
And the last but not least important is called Lighting and Colour. If the movie has too much bright colours, the audience would experience far less fear than if there was less. This is why thriller films are usually filmed in the dark in order for the audience to be unable to see everything that is happening. Also if lights are added, then there would be a creation of shadows. The killer could use these shadows to hiden his identity, withouth the character knowing who is attacking him.

Writing of the full Mise-en-scene for my film:

I discussed with my group where we should shoot the film. They were originally thinking of creating a set where we could film the entire opening sequence. However I proposed that we could use my house as we would not have time or the busget to build a set from scratch. This is why we agreed to use my house. Another reason for using my house was that we used my idea. When I was originally writing my ideas in the blog, I imagined how the entire scene would be implemented using my house, so we would be able to use all of the features of the house.