mise-en-scene

the term Mise-en-scene refers to everything in-front of the camera including the set design, lighting and actors. Mise-en-scene is important through the visual arts, storyboarding, visual theme and cinematography in order to create narrative story telling for your film. it focuses on the theatrical design instead of the plot itself as you are focusing on what is in the scene instead of the story. Therefore mise-en-scene allows the director to convey messages to the viewer through what is placed in the scene and not just the content of the scene. this can add an almost forth dimension for the film as viewers have to think about why a certain item was placed in the film and the connotations it may have behind it.

setting and set design 

due to our opening title sequence being set in a rural environment surrounded by a large body of water we decided to set our sequence in a large park somewhere which offered waterspouts such as paddle-boarding so we could get the permission to film on the water as well as on land. we were trying to represent an abandoned place which seems secluded with no people.

location and lighting

we filmed our sequence in Buckland park and we chose to film here due to its availability to provide us to go out on paddle boards as this was a key part in our sequence. it also had a large body of water surrounded by lots of green land and rocky cliff sides. one limitation of filming in this location was that it is a public place therefore there were people there that we had to try and avoid being in our shots which presented itself as a challenge at times as at the beginning of filming we had to film very close to a kids park meaning there were many children running around that we had to avoid. the weather on the day of the shoot was mostly good, it was sunny with minimal cloud which was good for the shoot as we had good natural lighting. however, there were points where the cloud would go over the sun and we had to change the settings of the camera frequently or we hd to wait for the cloud to pass over the sun making it very time consuming. 

make-up, beauty, special effects and hair 

due to our sequence being set in a natural setting where the characters are just pulling up to a lake going swimming we had no specific hair and makeup requirements, we told our actors to come as they would any day with their normal hair and natural to no makeup. we also did not have to use any special effects.

costume

for the costume we had the actors wear wetsuits with trainers and a hoodie over the top. we made this design as we thought the hoodie over the wetsuits would be easy to take off and also represent a casual normal day out with nothing to fancy which matches the location and setting the title sequence is in.

props

the most prominent props we used for the sequence were the two paddle boards and ors along with the car Maddie drives and the phone she pulls out of the car. we had the paddle boards ready in position from where albie pushes it into the water so it would be obvious to the viewer that the is going to become a key part of the sequence. the next prop we used for the scene was the car . we had Maddie drive her car into school so she could drive a car in the sequence. we had to decide on the day the position in which we would place the car and it took many trial and errors to get the right position for the car but we eventually decided to pull the car into the lane by the beach section we were filming at. the final prop we used was baddies phone. we placed the phone I the passanger seat of the car so that she could go and reach for it as albie in on the lake and eventually disappears. the close up shot of her taking the phone is an attention pull for the audience and aims to pull the audiences focus away from what albie is doing on the lake meaning him having disappeared becomes more of a shock for the viewer.