making of "the choices in our opening sequence" video

This is the plan to the making of my Mise-en-scene video that i am making on the choices/ decisions for our opening sequence.

mise-en-scene 

Costume

• top - red - connotes - strength, passion, confidence, danger, aggression, courage

• top - white connotes - innocence, purity, hope, goodness, cold, empty

• jumpsuit 1- blue - connotes - security, loyalty, trust, responsibility, peace, passive, predictable

• jumpsuit 2 - blue - connotes - security, loyalty, trust, responsibility, peace, passive, predictable

• jacket 1

1. green - connotes - safety, health, balance, growth, judgmental, luck

2. brown - connotes - reliability, stability, timid, predictable, honesty 

3. red - connotes - strength, passion, confidence, danger, aggression, courage

• jacket 2

1. green - connotes - safety, health, balance, growth, judgmental, luck 

2. blue - connotes - security, loyalty, trust, responsibility, peace, passive, predictable

• tie 

1. blue - connotes  - security, loyalty, trust, responsibility, peace, passive, predictable
2. yellow - connotes - happiness, caution, deception, positivity, intellect, cowardice

• shirt - mike - blue - connotes - security, loyalty, trust, responsibility, peace, passive, predictable
• shirt - Stuart - white - connotes -  innocence, purity, hope, goodness, cold, empty
• dirt on jumpsuit - shows they have been there for a long time

Lighting

• Dim forest lighting (natural forest lighting) - dim/ dark mood/ theme

Props

• dog tags - identification, soldier, just a number 

• fake knife - black - connotes - protection, power, sadness, dominance 

• shotgun - has lots of power, easy to kill with

• sock weapon

1. shows daisy's survivability
2. white - connotes - innocence, purity, hope, goodness, cold, empty

• no phone - don't want to be tracked

location/set design,

• forest - isolated location - cant hear 

Costume & Make-up,

• Messed up make-up - has been for ages - has been in action - could suggest an event

• blood already on zaza - already hurt herself - less capable

• no blood on daisy - can fend for herself/ smart - capable

• dirt on face/ neck - shows they have been there for a long time

• messed up hair to make it look like they have been their ages

Performance and direction of your actors (i.e. positioning and facial expressions)

• Daisy is the stereotype - oppose stereotype

• panning from mike to daisy

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how was mise-en-scene effected this

• Genre conventions?

our genre is action thriller

1. action filled
2. weapons
3. fights
4. cat and mouse chase
5. tension and suspense
6. low key lighting
7. murder/ crime

• Target audience

1. 15+
2. males and females

• What do they  suggest about your characters,

1. colours connote things for the chracters
2. chracter ppositioning can show capability
3. sock weapon shows she can survive

•  narrative? (What hints do they give towards the rest of your plot as an opening sequence?)

1. suggest she is going to kill hunter - we know there is another hunter
2. we can guess we may see how she got here

• How does it help towards any tension you may be creating?

1. switching between characters in the same shot
2. switching between characters

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1. me 1 righting notes - wants to become a director
2. needs to do a school project

me 1:

• can you tell me about the mise-en-scene in your opening sequence

me 2:

• yes, but it will have to be quick

me 1:

• thank you thank you

me 2:

• so, what do you want know

me 1:

• what is Mise-en-scene first of all

me 2:

• mise-en-scene is where characters and objects are places in a scene. It is everything in font of the camera. examples of this are: costumes, props, lighting, hair, make-up, character positioning, facial expression, colour.

me 1:

• Can you tell me about the costumes that you picked for the actors to wear

me 2:

• sure,
• For the main girl we had her wearing a blue jumpsuit as jumpsuits are a way to take people's uniqueness and the hunters would have done this as they don't care about the human lives they are taking away. They just dehumanise the girls by putting them in jumpsuits.
• The blue colour was used as it can connote security, peace, passiveness and predictability. The girl breaks these connotations by opposing the predictability of the girl being killed by the hunters. She opposes the passiveness and peace with the violence she has.
• We put her in a red t-shirt as red connotes strength, danger, aggression and courage. In the opening sequence she shows all of these attributes.
• For the second girl we had her wearing a blue jumpsuit as jumpsuits are a way to take people's uniqueness and the hunters would have done this as they don't care about the human lives they are taking away. They just dehumanise the girls by putting them in jumpsuits.
• The blue colour was used as it can connote security, peace, passiveness and predictability. In the sequence she follows these attributes apart from the security as she is killed.
• We put her in a white t-shirt as white connotes innocence and hope. There is hope for the girl as we hope that she could have survived but mostly the hope is lost when she is killed. The innocence can be implied as we aren't supposed to think that the girls have done anything wrong to get to be hunted by the hunters.
• the dirt on the jumpsuits can show how the girls have been hunted for some time

me 1:

• and what about the hunters costumes

me 2:

• yes i was just about to talk about them
• For hunter 1 he was wearing a jacket that contained 3 different colours in it; green, brown and red. The brown and the green are the more dominant colours. The colour brown connotes predictability which is opposed when the girl kills the hunter instead of him killing her. The colour green connotes safety, health and luck. all 3 of these attributes are opposed when he is unlikely as he lost his health/ life when he had a lack of safety. The red colour connotes the danger he is in as well as his aggressiveness. 
• the colour of the hunters tie is blue and yellow. The colour yellow connotes caution, positivity and interlect. these are opposed when the hunter is not intelligent enough to know he shouldn't have ever tried to hunt her. also the yellow can connote the caution you should have of the hunter as he is dangerous.
• The blue connotes security, peace, passiveness and predictability. This is all opposed when the hunter is killed instead of the girl which break the predictability and the hunter loses his security and there is a lack of peace. The shirt is also blue which emphasises the attributes connoted by the blue colour.
• for hunter 2 he was wearing a jacket that contained 2 colours in it: green and blue. The green connotes safety, health and luck which aren't opposed like the other hunter as this hunter is lucky to not get killed by the girl. The blue colour can connote security which is shown when he isn't the hunter to get killed so he is secure. 
• We didn't put him in a tie as we thought he didn't more connotations as the main character. We put him in a white shirt as the colour white can connote innocence and goodness. This is opposed in the sequence as the hunter is not good, he is killing innocent girl 

me 1:

• why did you pick to film in the forest

me 2:

• the lighting that you get during the day is a dim and slightly dark lighting. This lighting fits in with our theme which was a dark theme of hunters killing innocent girls for sport.
• The forest is an isolated location which if the sequence was real would be a good place to do it as its likely that nobody would know what you are doing.

me 1:

• can you tell me about the make-up and hair you used for the characters

me 2:

• we made the hair and the make-up of the girls be messed up to show that they had been hunted for a while before we see the events of the opening sequence.
• The use of the make-up can get the audience to think about what were the girls doing before they were hunted by the hunters
• we put blood on girl 1 to show that she couldn't survive and had already been hurt before being killed 
• we didn't put blood on girl 2 to show that she was very capable and is able to survive even being hunted 
• We made the girls faces, especially girl 1, slightly muddy to make it look like the girls had been there a while before we see them in the opening sequence  

me 1:

• why did you decide on the props you used for the opening sequence

me 2:

• we gave the girls dog tags to show the hunters have done something so they can count how many people they have killed. This adds to the hunters ruthless character and hoe they dehumanise the girls
• we decided on the black knife for 2 reasons. the first reason is because the colour black can connote power and protection. When the hunter has the knife he is powerful as he is able to kill the first girl. a knife is an object that you can use for protection. The other reason is that if the knife is black they it look will look more realistic with the closer up shots when the hunters kill the girl
• we picked the hunters having a shot gun to connote the power the wielder of the shotgun has. When the hunters have the shotgun they have power as they can kill the first girl as they shot gun in the leg. when the second girl takes the shotgun off the hunter she end up gaining the power over the hunter where she then kills him.
• we picked the weapon that the girl knocks down the hunter with to be a sock filled with rocks as it shows her survivability and intelligence. The fact that she is smart to make a weapon with what she has available in the forest shows her survivability and intelligence. The sock being white wasn't not thought about. The colour white can connote hope and goodness. This emphasises the hope we have for the girl to survive and get out of the forest. It also emphasises her being the good guy
• we made sure that none of the actors, especially the hunters, had their phones in their pockets as if it was happening in real life they wouldn't want to be tracked because of the things they are doing so they wouldn't have taken their phones

me 1:

• can you please tell me why you picked the certain facial expressions and character positioning

me 2:

• when we used the pan across the tree from the hunter to the girl it shows how dangerous the situation she is in is
• when she is looking down on the camera and when she is killing the hunter she is above him which shows she has the power over him. This is also done when the hunters kill the first girl they are above the girl 
• the expression on the first hunters face when he kills the girl is of happiness and pride. This shows that he has a ruthless personality and doesn't care that he is killing innocent humans 
• also on the actress we picked for the main girl is stereotypically thought as being the dumb blonde of the movie but she opposed these stereotypes where is is intelligent and able to fend for herself

me 1:

• what were the genre conventions in your sequence that made it an action thriller

me 2:

• the opening sequence was action filled which is one of the conventions of being an action movie. examples of the action are the two killings that we see in the same scene.
• The weapons that we made in the sequence are conventions of both thrillers and action so it was good for the genre being an action thriller
• a cat and mouse chase is a convention of a thriller. In the sequence a cat and mouse chase was seen between the girls and the hunters.\
• The use of fights are part of both the conventions of thrillers and actions
• Thrillers contain lots of tension and suspense. In the sequence there is tension and suspense being constantly built. the audience is in suspense weather or not the girl will be able to kill the hunter
• the low key lighting from the forests leaves blocking out some of the sunlight fits into the conventions of thriller
• the murder's we see in the sequence are conventions of thrillers

me 1:

• why is your sequence rated as a 15

me 2:

• our sequence is rated as a 15 as there is violence and unsafe things done in the sequence which are not advised for people under 15 to see as they could try and do what they see. The violence and language isn't bad enough to rate it higher than a 15 though
• our target audience is both males and females as it shows parts that both males and females would enjoy watching 

me 1:

• how is the mise-en-scene used to suggest things about the characters

me 2:

• as i have said before colours can be used to connote different attributes of the characters
• the character positioning of the person over the other having more power is used
• the use of the sock as the weapon can show the main girls capability

me 1:

• what have you included in your sequence to give hints to the rest of the narrative

me 2:

• The fact that we know there is at leats another hunter it can be suggested that the girl will go and kill the other hunter
• other hint to the narrative is that we don't see how she got to be killed so it can be suggested that we will see how she got to be hunted in the first place in the rest of the movie

me 1:

• how have you used the mise-en-scene to create tension

me 2:

• as i have said before using the pan from the hunter to the tree to the main girl in the same shot helps to build tension as the audience will be thinking is the hunter going to find the girl
• the fact that she is putting rocks into a rock can build tension as the sound could attract the hunter to her position

me 1:

• h

me 2:

• h