Main Task - Mise en Scene

For our horror film we wanted a dark, creepy, chilling Mise en scene. We wanted to visually create a frightening atmosphere for the audience so they can see what’s happening which would affect their feelings. To make our horror Mise en scene we chose locations which looked secluded, with lots of trees. Also the villain in our story wore dark clothing as to show that he is bad, we also wanted to hide his face to keep the audience guessing.


It was up to us to choose the right features in order to create that tense and frightful background. We felt for our opening the most important aspect was the location, we decided to conduct the filming in South Park because it still has original pre-war iron railing and a rusty gate, for the girl to run through. The trees that are grouped together worked well in our Mise en scene, and the path at the back of the park had very few people, if any, passing through. This was littered with dead leaves, which helped in setting our initial frame, where the camera is shot from the ground up.

   

We would have preferred a far more woodland and thick forest area for the Mise en Scene, and because of time and distance, (as the actors, and group did not wish to stray too far). The location where the female character is killed is more open plan than we would have preferred. A far more claustrophobic and confined grouping of tree’s would have incited these feelings onto the viewer, however in the abundance of fallen, dead leaves made up for the lack of having a thick forest setting in the frames.



The Second thing I decided on was the costume for the villain in our film. I wanted him to wear scary and dark clothes, so to give the viewer the sense of things not seeming right and he’s the bad character.