Mis en scene makes a a thriller film more enticing to watch and builds the tension and suspense to create a relationship with the audience. It takes all different elements of mis-en-scene to make a thriller they include ;
-Setting and Iconography
-Costume, Hair and Make up
-Facial Expressions & Body Language
-Lighting and Colour
-Positioning of characters/objects within the frame
By using all of these different elements they will help with the making of our thriller to make it create a relationship with the audience by making them feel the tension and suspense rising upon them.
The mis -en -scene of our thriller includes iconography setting costume hair and makeup, lighting and the positioning of the characters. We have specifically chosen these mis en scene elements as we believe that this will help is to make our thriller more exciting and intensifying.
The iconography includes your typical things you'd see in a thriller like the knife which will be our murder weapon, the blood in which will be used to show the deaths and murders, a saucepans and a kitchen to make the scene more realistic so that the audience can feel like they are in the scene, and possibly cigarettes which could make everything seem normal as you wouldn't be smoking in a bad situation. This is all conventional to a thriller as we see these in most thrillers as they are used to create suspense tension and horror.
The setting is in a house in the kitchen. This involves both the garden and the kitchen giving our thriller the sense of reality that is needed to engage the audience more and making them believe this is actually a true story. We have used the conventions of a thriller so that our thriller will be more engaging for the audience and with it being in a family giving them that personal feel towards the film.
The costume hair and makeup involves a girl in pyjamas with fake blood in her mouth as she is killed with her hair up. The costumes are giving the reality towards the film, making the audience feel like they can relate towards it and making them suspect that so etching terrible is about to happen as the girl in the film will be acting normal due to the realistic features. The killer will be wearing a mask which makes it conventional to a thriller as the identity of the villain is always hidden until revealed later on in the film. It gives it that sense of suspense and tension which is needed to create a relationship with the audience.
Lighting will be low key to make everything seem more dark and mysterious, making sure that everything becomes scary giving the audience and eerie feel towards the film. The Lowe key lighting immoderately makes the audience tense as they cannot see much or everything going on around them or in the film making them more scared for the next scenes.
Finally, the positioning of the characters is key In our thriller as we can't give to much away about the killer. The typical thriller you never see the identity of the killer revealed until the end and we've decided to keep to the conventions and keep the identity hidden. This makes the tension and suspense build so that the audience are pining for the identity to be revealed, keeping them engaged.
Our thriller will create a relationship with the audience as it will. Ale them feel the tension and suspense they need to make them jump and scared when watching our thriller. Try will be fully engaged with the characters as they are conventional to a thriller genre and they will feel like they are in the film due to the realistic approaches we have taken as a group when making our thriller.
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