Research into Mise en Scene - Miss Georgiou

Mise en Scene is a French word meaning composing the scene. Mise en scene has a number of different meanings. The actual meaning is how everything is positioned and designed in your set. Mise en scene refers to everything that appears before the camera and its arrangement- composition, sets, props, actors, costumes, sounds and lighting. I have chosen the opening credits from the film 7 where i will be picking out different aspects of mise en scene. 

Lighting 

The main lighting in this clip is low key lighting. Low key lighting adds suspense as it gives a sense of darkness and loneliness which frightens the viewers. Chatoscuro is visible in this picture from the clip as we see the shadow. The use of the shadow is conventional to the thriller as the audience are unaware of what is going on in the scene this creates suspense as the audience are confused and wondering who this shadow is which is also another convention which is hidden identity. The use of the picture being black and white juxtaposes the colours portraying a sense of good and evil and foreshadowing that there will be  a hero and a villain. 

Makeup and Costumes. 

As this opening scene follows the conventions of a thriller using hidden identity we do not see the characters face therefore do not see his makeup on his face or his costume. On the other hand we also see that the character has makeup on his hands making them look dirty. This creates a sense of enigma as we do not know where he has been or what he has been doing to get those dirty hands. This makes viewers more willing to watch the rest of the film as they want to find out what else happens. 

 Body language 

In this clip 

Setting

As we watch the opening clip we only get flashes of were the character may be and it is hard to work out where he actually is. This creates mystery as it is quite an unusual place to be. As he is developing photos it makes us think the character could be a stalker or could have an obsession with someone. Also the colours in this clip are very dark and show a lot of red. Red could symbolize danger or blood this could foreshadow the events they are about to come in the rest of the movie. 

Camera Angle

In this opening clip we only see extreme close ups which are mainly of the characters hands. This lets us see his hands in more detail.This is highly effective as we can not see any other part of the background or setting and it could portray that his hands are a big aspect of the film as he could use them to kill other characters. This also creastes mystery as we wonder who the character is and what he looks like.

Mise en Scene will help me to create my own thriller clip as i can understand which aspects create mystery and help create a sense of fear. This will make my thriller clip more exciting for people to watch. It also helps me  to show which lighting creates different things such as shadows which also adds to making my thriller more scary.