Mise-en-Scene

Here are some images which we have found in order to help explain our ideas in terms of mise-en-scene for our opening sequence.

We are going to travel to the BullRing shopping centre in Birmingham. We wanted to use a busy place so that it isolates the young girl; we will use the moving crowd and the girl standing still to create a time lapse.

We are going to go to Birmingham around Christmastime for a number of reasons. Firstly, simply due to the business of this area at this time of year, it will make our time lapse even more effective. Secondly, because we know that there is a carousel there at this time of year, this links with the theme of circles but is also associated with childhoo and happiness- relating to the feelings of the characters and the flashbacks of the girl in her younger days.

In the car crash scene we will use a red car; the colour red is associated with danger, hence why the red car is going to be the car hitting the protagonist's car.

The protagonist's car will be white; the colour white is associated with innocence. Therefore, to show that the protagonist is innocent in the crash.

In our opening sequence, the protagonist is going to wake up in a hospital bed, open her eyes and see bright lights. We decided to use a hospital scene so it would fit to the conventions of thriller, and show that something bad happened in the car crash.

We are going to use one street in Birmingham (a big, busy city) and another in Leek (a quiet, small town) to show the girl and boy walking down the road, happy and singing to each other. Birmingham is going to be very busy, whereas Leek isn’t to suggest they have been walking for quite a long time to get back to the car.

We are going to use a car park to, again, contrast against the busy town, also you will see the black figure here. Which links to conventions of the genre and will create mystery and tension.