Mise-en-Scene of our Opening Sequence (Photo Evidence)

Here are pictures to describe our mise-en-scene from our actual day of shooting our opening sequence. These picture illustrate the costume and makeup, lighting and props that we used in our opening sequence.

Above is our actors face before we applied makeup. We were aiming for an older looking man rather than a fresh faced teenager. To create the old age effect on our actors skin we used a Special FX makeup substance called Liquid Latex, this required us to stretch our actors face then apply the Latex to create the wrinkled skin effect when we let go of the skin.

This is our actors face after we applied the liquid latex. He has a neutral expression to the face which allows us to see the natural resting place of the wrinkles. To further show the details of him being old aged we also applied face paint, which is safe for hair, to his eyebrows, side burns and also in his & hair.

 

To further show our actors make up we asked him to take off his prop glasses and skwint his eyes so the wrinkles are seen in more detail.

We finally asked our actor to pull a "funny face" particularly in his mouth area which again shows the detail in the wrinkles especially around our actors mouth.

Here is our male actors costume. We decided against our original ideas of costume for this character as we saw it as quite comedic and fairly over the top. Here it shows our actor wearing his prop glasses, complete with makeup, an older jumper and some chinos which played quite well on camera because it wasn't to striking and made him fade into the background when he needed to.

Here is our child victims costume. We kept it fairly simple and quite girly but also used clashing colours and out there patterns to draw the whole focus to the little girl which was of course our victim and needed to stand out. As her face is not shown  there was no need for makeup and her hair was just kept simple down because it was easy for her face to be slightly hidden behind

Here is our mother character.  Like our chart we made we kept it fairly close to how we wanted our character to look, however we added a checkered skirt because it gave it a more undone and rough look, almost as if the character just threw on the clothes. Hair and makeup was kept very simple as this helped the character also blend into the background, it also gave the character a worn out and motherly look. We figured even if it doesn't come across as if the  actor is the mum her outfit, costume and makeup could account for some other relation like a sister.

Here is our 'Makeup Artist' applying products to create the look as if the  child has scrapped her hands while playing. To create this look we used "Gel Blush" and "Fake Blood" as it is obviously the most realistic thing to do. The 'Gel Blush' worked well to make it look like skin has been scraped off the palm but also that fresh blood is starting to seep out, the 'Fake Blood' then just intensified that look. To make it look a bit more realistic we rubbed dirt into the makeup to give it a muddy look but also as if dirt has been embeded in her hand when she fell.

Here is just a picture of how the hands looked on the actor in a close up shot. As its seen in this picture it looks quite realistic especially the actors left hand.

This just shows how the actors scrapped hands looked from  a fairly far away point. We liked the way it looked as it  didn't look to fake and bright red which fake blood tends to create.

Here is just a picture of the different props we used, which were not many. This included glasses, pen and a crossword puzzle, we did use tissues and plasters however they are not included in this picture.

Finally here is a picture showing our lighting and as it shows in the picture it was very sunny, this caused problems as we usually had to stop filming when shadows appeared as the camera crew would have been shown in the shadow. Luckily we were very cautious of when to film and how to balance out the light so the camera wasn't facing the sun.

For our sound we do not have photo evidence obviously however for the sound in our clip we had to be very weary of planes as they would fly over every minute or so. We were quite careful to when to film and how loudly we spoke to ensure the camera could here.