Mise-En-Scene

Mise-En-Scene

Costumes and characters

Tom Ryder – Antagonist. Name: Agent Ryder. Costume – Black suit trousers (formal) Black leather shoes, white shirt (Partially unbuttoned, rolled up sleeves)

Tom Riley – Antagonist. Name: Agent Riley. Costume – Grey suit trousers (formal) black shirt (1 button down) Black leather Shoes.

Ade Northcott – Antagonist – Black suit Trousers (Formal), white shirt, black suit jacket, black leather shoes, black sunglasses, Rolex watch.

Arthur Scholes-Furness – Protagonist. Name: Mason. Costume – dark grey cotton joggers, polo shirt (Colour TBC) Nike high-top trainers.

The reason that the three Antagonist characters are wearing formal clothes is because they are playing agents and suits fit where their classical mise-en-scene. Arthur will be wearing a much more casual looking outfit, this is because he is playing a person who has just been captured from his home and this would be the type of clothing he would be wearing while at home on his own.

Lighting

Interrogation room – The lighting will be very dark with one single light to show that Arthur is being interrogated and is not in a very good situation.

Car – The street lights will provide the light for these scenes but if any extra light is required then the in car light can be used.

In the street – again the street lights will provide sufficient lighting to be able to shoot these scenes effectively.

Make-up

The only make up that will be needed is to make Arthurs face look like he has just been hit in the jaw.

Props

Rope

Cassette Player

Fake Gun

Black head bag

Chairs

Torch

Public feedback evidence

After we had received the feedback from the class we then put together a series of questions to give to the public to see what certain age ranges preferred to see in a thriller film. We asked questions like: Do you prefer a thriller film that gets right into the action or one that builds up slow? Do you like Supernatural thrillers? Do you like Political thrillers? It also featured more questions.

After looking at the results we noticed that the younger generations preferred thrillers that got straight into the action and were high action. Whereas the older generations said that they preferred thrillers that were more to do with love like a Psychological thriller or political thrillers. They also said that they prefer the film to build up in a gradual state to one climax rather than go straight into the action in the first few scenes.

Audience Feedback

Audience feedback

We pitched our idea of the thriller opening sequence to a film to the class and asked them to give us feedback on what they thought would work well and what they thought needed adapting or changing.

After we pitched our idea to the rest of the class we decided to adapt our idea. The idea initially was to include a drugs based idea but after listening to the feedback received from the class and our teacher we decided that this would be a bit of a farfetched idea and needed to adapt our idea.

Other feedback that we received was fairly positive on the whole the class thought our idea although needed changing slightly the idea would fit with the conventions of thrillers and this was one of the criteria for the task

However there was some negative feedback also, we got told that idea needed to be “toned down” to be able to make shooting the film a possibility and this would make the rest of the film flow a lot more also.

Thriller Genre Research

Thriller Genre Research

Thrillers are a genre of film or television programming that uses suspense tension and excitement as its main three elements. A thriller that met all the conventions of thrillers would be one that kept the audience on the edge of their seats. However thrillers can have many sub genres or catagories that are still classed as thrillers these are

· Crime thriller – Is an account of a successful or failed crime. E.g . Pulp Fiction

· Supernatural Thriller – the film brings another worldly element mixed with plot twists, suspense and tension. E.g The sixth sense.

· Psychological thriller – when the conflict between main characters is more mental and emotional rather than physical. E.g the silence of the Lambs.

· Political Thriller – When a hero must survive to ensure he stability with the government that employs him. E.g. Enemy of the State.

· Conspiracy Thriller – When a hero confronts a large group of enemies who only he or she realizes their true extent. E.g. Angels and Demons.

· Rape and Revenge thriller – An exploitation that focuses more on thriller elements. E.g. The last house on the left.

Tuesday 13th December

The shot list as been completed and copied up by all of the group. The next task is to complete the storyboard and then scan and upload to the blog.