Mise-en-Scene Elements in our Opening Sequence!

Mise-en-scene is a very important factor of a movie or TV show, it can send the audience symbols or representations by the use of Costume, Makeup, Props, Lighting and Location. Here is the mise-en-scene elements our opening sequence will include:

Lighting:
The lighting for our opening sequence will be ambient to ensure that it is as naturalistic as possible. We understand that it could be an issue in some cases especially if we start losing late towards the end of the day. This will however be solved by us working as quickly as possible and close to mid-day. However if this is an issue on the day we can always change the lighting on Final Cut pro, which we will be doing for certain clips anyway!

Location:
For our location, as it is seen posted in our Location Recce, we have chosen to use a park, as this fits in perfectly with our storyline. We chose a park that was quite secluded where not many people visit especially because if people are there we may not be able to film as permission is needed for other people to be on camera. The park is also quite open so lighting can pore into the park, hopefully making it brighter, however it is next to a forest which could restrict lighting from some angles but works perfectly with our opening sequence storyline.

Costume and Makeup:
We did a separate post on the use of our Costume and Makeup to ensure we added enough detail. It can be found at this link:
http://foundationportfoliowg3.blogspot.com/2012/02/face-charts-and-costume-for-our.html

Props:
We tried to keep props at a minimum in opening sequence because they are a hassle to keep track of and look after, especially if we want to ensure we keep the opening sequence naturalistic. We decided to use a Crossword and pencil and Fake blood. The cross word and pencil is for the Older man character to do while he is sitting on the bench, this stops him from looking so suspicious, and the Blood is to go on our Child Victim Characters knee as she falls over. We will have to ensure props look realistic, especially the blood, but also that they are out of  the way from people as they could stop the opening sequence from looking professional, especially if it is in one shot then cuts to another and its gone for example.

By going into further depth of our mise-en-scene it helps us to understand more and realise the potential risks in each part of mise-en-scene, but does however help us to feel prepared and confident going into production of our opening sequence!