Research Mise-En-Scene Miss Georgiou

Research on Mise-En-Scene

In this blog I am going to be focusing on the 5 features of mis-en-scene:

The first feature is settings and iconography, as we can tell the film is set in a deserted and haunted mental asylum, this allows the audience to already get a feel for what the film may hold. We have been told the building where the filming is taking place is a real place. 

The second feature that has been used in my film and should be used from Mise-en-scene and that is costumes, hair and make up. The victims of the film are wearing casual clothes as we, the audience, would expect, the so called 'bad guys' or haunted characters have been made to look scary obviously facial wise and what they are wearing makes them seem intimidating and frightening to the audience. The costumes and make up was thought through very well in my opinion. 

When things take a turn for the worst the victims in the film show very good facial expressions to get the audience very involved and to show the fear and terror is felt by the characters. Facial expressions is the third part of Mise-en-scene and is probably the main part of the film and which shows the audience the most fear and creates the most suspense for the audience as we can see from the clip I have chosen the facial expressions clearly show their distress and fear before, during and after scenes in the film. Body language is also part of Mise-en-scene and also helps show the fear and discomfort shown by the characters. 

Lighting and colour are the fourth feature of the Mise-en-scene elements, this feature of Mise-en-scene help a lot when it comes to building suspense in a film and scaring the audience which is the aim of a thriller film. So, by looking at the clip I have chosen we can see that the camera crew use night vision to shoot most of the film, already we can see that the film is going to have a very suspicious look to it. By using night vision it lets the audience know that it is going to be very difficult for the characters to move and manoeuvre themselves around the asylum. 

Finally, we have the positioning of the characters and the objects within the frame, there is one particular scene during the trailer of the film where it has a few characters on one side of the hall and a few other characters on the other side the camera then zooms in on a mysterious object and we focus on this object as it moves from one position to another, by using the characters as the sort of bait in this scene it allows the camera to focus on the mysterious object in the frame as well as the characters. I believe this is a very good scene in the film to look at as we can see all/most of the characters and another object in the scene which sums up this feature of Mise-en-scene.