Mise-en-scene

Costumes

This above was the actor at the opening thriller. His costume was aimed to look like a member of crime scene investigation crew. I think that this was achieved by the costume making the starting scene dramatic and encouraging the audience to wonder what's happening. However, I think that the effect might not have come through as clearly aimed as we wanted because of the minimal lighting we had in that scene. We may have improved this costume by adding an emblem of 'C.S.I' or something similar.





This costume was aimed to indicate an ominous air around the character, which was influenced by the dark colours. The use of the black hoody made it feel more sinister and mysterious.





This costume was aimed to again look mysterious, but slightly more neutral so that the audience can grasp some sort of a relationship with the character. If the audience can relate to the actress, then the killing scene would be made far more effective as the audience would be shocked.


Props

• Picture Frame
• Picture of female character
• Knife
• Fake Blood
• Houses
• Bed

As the locations were quite basic to start with, we agreed to keep them basic so that the audience could focus in on what was happening, instead of letting their eyes wander elsewhere. We reinforced this by removing everything we could out of the garage as we wanted it too look dark and dingy, but in the room we kept various objects out to make it look like it was just an innocent room which indicates nothing sinister, so that the final outcome came as a shock to the audience. 


Diegetic Sound


We muted out most of the sound during the production, however we did leave the footsteps going up the steps to the house as there was a pause in the music, so with these footsteps it filled the gap and also added to the tension as the sound of running footsteps can automatically trigger an sense of alertness within the audience. Also, during the killing scene, we kept the sound of the female character shuffling away, and the sound of the impact of the knife blow as this additionally added to the suspense and shock of what just happened.