Coursework: Pre-production - Mise-en-scene
Costume
What will your characters wear? What is the costume supposed to communicate to the audience? How does this link to your Statement of Intent in terms of creating representations?
My characters will be dressed like teenagers, wearing branded clothes, sports brands, and casual wear. The extras,depending on who they are, will wear clothes according to that in order to achieve a sense of realism. It will link to the representations as they won't really subvert stereotypes in terms of the way they dress but instead with their story line.
Lighting
How will you light your trailer? Day or night? Interior or exterior? If outside, can you use streetlights, shadows, reflected sunlight or other creative techniques to achieve the lighting style you want? If inside, experiment with creative lighting techniques using windows, blinds, artificial lights, phone flashes and more.
The lighting will vary from day to night, depending on the intensity of the scene and the actual event in the trailer. To avoid bad natural lighting or inconsistency, if a shot doesn't get filmed before it gets dark instead of continuing to film I will film again at the same time on another day to avoid the scene jumping from day to night per shot. Most natural lighting will be cloudy as sunlight can create too many shadows. Other artificial light will be done with regular room lighting, phone torches and perhaps streetlight.
Actors
The first thing you need to plan is your cast - who will be in your production and which characters will they play? Try and cast people who are reasonably similar to the character they are playing (both in age and personality). Next, plan their placement and movement in key scenes in your trailer. Do you want them to appear trapped in a claustrophobic close-up? Or isolated as a tiny person in a wide shot?
The actors will be around the age of the target audience- aged 17-20 years old. They are likely to appear as Londoners, wearing branded clothes, looking effortlessly modern. Each character will be played by someone that matches the role so there is minimal acting involved.
Make-up
Plan any make-up you require - this could be particularly important for horror trailers.
There will be standard make up required- on the female characters and some wounds on the characters that fight. There will be blood on the male character that gets into a fight alongside more swelling/bruises. The characters (minor roles) will have bloody knuckles and stains on their shirts, with some scratches on their face.
Props
What props will you require? Remember, you can't use anything that might resemble a weapon in a public or school location (this is VERY important). Well-planned props can help to communicate genre and character quickly - vital in a short trailer.
I will need props such as phones, fake blood, and basic items that people our age would usually have access to /use such as headphones.
Setting
This should already be largely planned using your script. However, now is the time to specify exact locations - if a classroom, which one? How will you arrange it with the teacher? When will you film there? For external locations, try and take pictures of settings or use Google Maps and Google Earth. Spending quality time planning your locations can make a huge difference to the professionalism of your film.
There will be scenes in outside locations such as roads and gardens where the different characters are showcased, and there will also be scenes inside bedrooms as that is a typical convention for a coming of age film. There will also be scenes in a school/ office environment where the female character is rejected from her university. If I need to use a classroom instead of an office I will ask a media teacher if I can use their classroom, if not I will use an office with a minor character dressed as a professor to play that role. I won't use locations that are familiar or close to Greenford as this will add to the realism and making it look more professional so I will research places that are good filming locations that don't have a lot of people passing by and isn't near any private property.
What will your characters wear? What is the costume supposed to communicate to the audience? How does this link to your Statement of Intent in terms of creating representations?
My characters will be dressed like teenagers, wearing branded clothes, sports brands, and casual wear. The extras,depending on who they are, will wear clothes according to that in order to achieve a sense of realism. It will link to the representations as they won't really subvert stereotypes in terms of the way they dress but instead with their story line.
Lighting
How will you light your trailer? Day or night? Interior or exterior? If outside, can you use streetlights, shadows, reflected sunlight or other creative techniques to achieve the lighting style you want? If inside, experiment with creative lighting techniques using windows, blinds, artificial lights, phone flashes and more.
The lighting will vary from day to night, depending on the intensity of the scene and the actual event in the trailer. To avoid bad natural lighting or inconsistency, if a shot doesn't get filmed before it gets dark instead of continuing to film I will film again at the same time on another day to avoid the scene jumping from day to night per shot. Most natural lighting will be cloudy as sunlight can create too many shadows. Other artificial light will be done with regular room lighting, phone torches and perhaps streetlight.
Actors
The first thing you need to plan is your cast - who will be in your production and which characters will they play? Try and cast people who are reasonably similar to the character they are playing (both in age and personality). Next, plan their placement and movement in key scenes in your trailer. Do you want them to appear trapped in a claustrophobic close-up? Or isolated as a tiny person in a wide shot?
The actors will be around the age of the target audience- aged 17-20 years old. They are likely to appear as Londoners, wearing branded clothes, looking effortlessly modern. Each character will be played by someone that matches the role so there is minimal acting involved.
Make-up
Plan any make-up you require - this could be particularly important for horror trailers.
There will be standard make up required- on the female characters and some wounds on the characters that fight. There will be blood on the male character that gets into a fight alongside more swelling/bruises. The characters (minor roles) will have bloody knuckles and stains on their shirts, with some scratches on their face.
Props
What props will you require? Remember, you can't use anything that might resemble a weapon in a public or school location (this is VERY important). Well-planned props can help to communicate genre and character quickly - vital in a short trailer.
I will need props such as phones, fake blood, and basic items that people our age would usually have access to /use such as headphones.
Setting
This should already be largely planned using your script. However, now is the time to specify exact locations - if a classroom, which one? How will you arrange it with the teacher? When will you film there? For external locations, try and take pictures of settings or use Google Maps and Google Earth. Spending quality time planning your locations can make a huge difference to the professionalism of your film.
There will be scenes in outside locations such as roads and gardens where the different characters are showcased, and there will also be scenes inside bedrooms as that is a typical convention for a coming of age film. There will also be scenes in a school/ office environment where the female character is rejected from her university. If I need to use a classroom instead of an office I will ask a media teacher if I can use their classroom, if not I will use an office with a minor character dressed as a professor to play that role. I won't use locations that are familiar or close to Greenford as this will add to the realism and making it look more professional so I will research places that are good filming locations that don't have a lot of people passing by and isn't near any private property.
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