Mise-en-scene Consideration

In terms of mise for our film opening, we plan on achieving a more solemn and mysterious atmosphere by using dark, highly contrasted lighting. This will cause a sense of unease within the viewer which will help them to identify the genre as a thriller. By doing is, it will allow us to use a simpler narrative for the opening as the genre will already have been made apparent through this lighting and the sound.

We aim for the antagonist's location to be a well-used workshop as this would help to portray him as methodical and smart. This would allow the viewer to infer things about the antagonist which helps with character development within the film. However, we don't want to the antagonist to appear too different from the protagonist as he is simply a darker version of the same person and therefore the scenes with Azier as the magician are all going to be taking place outside as it helps to mirror this planned and methodical character.

We also aim on attempting to hide the protagonist/antagonist's identity so that we can cause a bigger impact later in the film when they are revealed to be the same person.

By Olivia Calver and Samuel Skinner