Mise-en-Scene - Settings

Empty Countryside

This is an example of Mise-en-scene, and is used for genres such as horror or romance. Horror, is when it is used as an example because it is a vulnerable place to be, because 'no one can hear you scream'. This works better when it is dark, as it makes the audiance and the characters look uncomfortable in the setting, as the surroundings are not familiar.

In romance, it has the opposite effect. This is helped by music that would be played in the background. For romance, this can also be in the dark, but the lighting, which is also mise-en-scene, would be of a different opacity than of a horror. The empty setting between two people can make this more romantic, as they are alone and it can attract the audiance in their own idea of how this could be set.

Empty Desert

For the desert scene, this works for action and horror. In horror, this has the same effects as the empty rural setting, as it is empty and a vulnerable place to be. Again, this is because of the emptyness of the place and the unfamiliarity of the setting around them.

This works for an action scene however as it is an area that be used for a car chase scene, where if there is a crash it would be the end of the situation, there is nothing to crash into. This scene is similar to the one scene in the Gorillaz video where it is done in a desert, and the exitement of the scene makes the audiance grabbed in. This is why I want to do something similar to my opening two minutes, not in the empty desert as it is unreachable, but in a quiet space. That is why I chose the school at night.

School corridor at night.

This school hallway at night works best as it is a mix of two genres that have been present in my research and planning, action and horror. A classroom corridor in the daytime is different as it uses characters to fill the corridors with students and therefore the preence of other people makes it less scary. No people in the corridors at night time however is more scary, as it makes the atmosphere change. Why are they there?
The cliche however in action is that you have the chase scene in the corridors, this is where mise-en-scene works best as school corridors work well with long stretches for charaters to run in.
For this setting, this corridor could work best as it means I can link both of the seperate cliches, a chase scene can be included in order to run from a horror cliche, an objectivity of fear. For my clip I am hoping to further make mine more exiting and constantly moving, instead of slow and dreary. I want to explore the openess of the corridors I have already seen and taken pictures of, therefore expressing a good opening to a film.

I think understanding the mise-en-scene of settings will help me in understanding each individual areas and why they are effective, it also means I can use just the two characters. To fuurther look at mise-en-scene I can explore lighting and costume, which also helps in the idea of making the clip effective.