Planning Mise-en-scene- Miss Georgiou

Settings and Iconography:

• Dark abandoned room - We decided to use a dark abandoned room because when the girl wakes up when she is tied up on the bed, it helps create an enigma to our story line. It hides the details of the surrounding making the victim and audience unaware of where about she is.
• We are going to film our clip in the dark to have low key lighting which is conventional to a thriller film we will use iconography items such as torches to be our light source. These will act as background and filler lights creating shadows make it seem mysterious. This scene also allows us to use low key lighting that hides peoples facial expressions. This is also a convention to the thriller genre and will be useful for hiding the identity of our killer.
• Iconography items such as ropes - We have chosen to use ropes to tie the victim up when she has been kidnapped and put in an isolated dark room. This is conventional because the audience can she that she is trapped and the killer has done this to her.

Lighting and Colour:

• Low-Key lighting - We decided to use low-key lighting in our thriller because it is easy to create shadows which keeps the audience in suspense. It also helps conceal the identity of the stalker which keeps the enigma of who is it.
• Colour black and white - The killer will wear a black hoody to highlight to the audience the character they play. This is conventional because the colour black connotes bad and death. To show the audience which characters are the victim they both are going to wear bright colours as they are going to be wearing bright Halloween costumes. This connotes there innocence highlighting that they are the victim in the situation.

Facial Expressions and Body Language:

• Facial expressions of shock, panic, fear - When the victim wakes up and realises what has happened and that she is tied up she begins to panic. The audience will be able to see this through the facial expressions of the character. The victims eyes will be wide open to highlight her fear.
• Body Language - The victims body language shows the audience the hierarchy of power between the characters. This will be done through making the victim curl up with her hands and feet tied giving the impression the victim is smaller than she is. This is conventional because it highlights the fact the she is trapped and has no control.

Positioning of the character and objects in the scene:

• The characters positioning - The Victim will be positioned in the centre of the screen to show her importance and the killer will be positioned at the side. This make the audience suspicious of the characters and shows who is the protagonist and the antagonist.

Costume and Make-Up:

• The victims - The victims will be dressed up in cute Halloween costumes to make the audience see that they are innocent and can cause no danger but are the victims. However when the girl wakes up tied up on the bed the victim will have dark circle around the eyes to show exhaustion and struggle. This is conventional because women are seen as the typical victims because they are perceived to be the weaker gender.
• The killer - The killer is going to be wearing black clothes and have her face covered  to hide the facial expressions to create hidden identity which is a typical convention of a thriller film,. This is conventional because it prevents the audience from building a relationship with them and shows they are the antagonist.

Overall, i think our groups mise-en-scene is conventional because all five areas have been displayed in our thriller to help keep the audience in suspense. The audience will be able to tell who the killer is and who are the victims due to the colours they are dressed in and can build a relationship with the victims through their facial expressions. Each code and convention help contribute to the suspense making the film a good thriller.