Planning: Mise En Scene

The mise en scene that i plan to use in my thriller consists of the following:

- Lighting
- Setting
- Iconography
- Costume
- Body Language and Facial Expression

What i am going to do in the lighting in my thriller is mainly natural and low key lighting, that i am going to us as this is conventional to the thriller genre for my thriller. With the natural lighting this is shown when we will be inside the house of the female victim and also the male character (Boyfriend), because will use the house lights, to give the audience a calm feel and try to understand the characters first. When we use the low key lighting in the park and the unknown location where the victim will get tortured. The lighting in the park will be low key as it is late at night and it is hard to see, this is done to give the audience an eerie feel to what is going to happen. With the torture scene in the unknown location, there will be bright lights when the victim will have the bag on her head taken off to make is seem like she is being blinded by the light, also as the antagonist is torturing the female there will be a camera shot at a medium size which shows the victim get slapped by a machete and this will be show as a silhouette.

With what is going to happen in the setting of my thriller, is that there would be three main locations within the thriller, the first location is the house party. We use this because this is conventional because the teenage victim would go to a party because of her age. And this is where the danger starts to happen, as the scene develops you see that the victim walks into the park and this is the second main location as the victim get kidnapped at this point in the thriller. With what happens in the torture scene these is where the main action will happen as this is at a unknown location and this is conventional to the thriller because being in a isolated area no one can help you....

The iconography within our thriller is the phone is because the text that gets sent to the victim but she leave the phone at home and doesn't get the warning. Also as the scene carries through there is the vodka bottle  this is what gets the victim drunk at the house party, this is conventional because teenagers get drunk quite often at house parties. When she is at the unknown location and the antagonist gets close to the victim gets the slap from the antagonist with the machete. As the victim has been knocked out there is a shovel that will be shown to show that the victim could be left for dead or alive.

The costume of our characters will be represented as conventional with the antagonist as he would be all black and won't be scene in most of the thriller. The boyfriend will be shown as casual, and so would the friend of the boyfriend. But the girlfriend would be shown as sub verse because the clothing that she would wear is revealing to show her vulranabitiy, but the colours of it wouldn't be the conventional light colour because she would wear the darker tones to show that she has some secerets

Will our main antagonist body language that will be shown is that he is strong and tall, to show the strenght and the fear that the antagonist can create, towards the victim. The facial expressions that he would have is straight face that would be scary and create fear but when he is happily enjoying the touching of the victim you see that his face will have enjoyment shown.
Our female will be shown as vulranable and weak as the antagonist will make her feel weak and have struck fear into her, so the body language will that is shown to the audience is that she is nervous and scared.