Mise-en-scene is important in any film especially horrors. The setting, clothing, hair and makeup and objects such as flashlights and murder weapons are all crucial to the film. The audience will immediately associate certain places with genres and will know what a person is like from their clothing. Their will also be items in the film that the audience would expect to see in that genre.
Mise-en-scene is something that should always be thought of when making a horror film. For our opening sequence we had our main character wear a ID badge showing that she was a sixth form/college student. Our antagonist wears only black as the colour is usually associated which horror, loneliness and darkness which I think represents that character quite well. As our location is in a school our props match the scene. Our props are schoolbooks, pens and a pencil case, a backpack, a coat, a mobile phone and a class full of computers. Our character having a mobile phone does fall into the commonly used horror props which I personally think is a good thing as I wanted to keep some horror clichés in our piece as well as making it unique.
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