Planning mise - en - scene - Miss Georgiou

Lighting/Colour 
-Lighting is mainly low key, creating harsh shadows on faces, bodies and props. It sets the scene for thrillers being dark, mysterious and sinister. Low key lighting is usually used during the mysterious and sinister scenes, emphasising the suspense and tension. As well as creating an unsettling atmosphere.  

-Colour is a key convention for mise-en-scene in Thrillers, as we associate emotions and thoughts with different colours. For example blacks can we used to symbolize death, immediately creating tension and leaving the audience feeling on edge. As well as reds can be associated with blood, again linking in with death. Overall the colour and lighting link together, helping to create a sinister mood. The characters being in dark colours suggest that they are evil, killers etc, as well as the setting being dark, which help to mask the characters and their actions.  

There will be low key lighting throughtout most of the openeing sequence as you are therefore able to see what time of day this is set, as this will be over a period of a few days where the victim will feel that she is constantly being watched. 
It will be pitch black dark on the last scene when the victim is actually being followed through the woods. 

Costumes
-The use of costumes within Thrillers are very important, they must be life like to the audience, as how the characters are presented is how the audience perceive them. Therefore the more life like and believable the characters are the better the storyline for the audience. Typically in Thrillers the murderer, villain etc will wear dark clothes to enhance the mystery and evilness of them, as well creating tension. However the victims usually wear ripped, dirty, blood stained clothes, reinforcing their weakness and vulnerability, as well as connoting that they have been chased, are unable to fight back etc.
The costume for the victim will be very relaxed such as jeans and a t-shirt  and a jumper, the villain would be wearing all black, as it hides the identity of the killer. The hair will be very natural and not too extravagant as the thriller will not look normal or realistic which is our aim. 

Setting/Props 
-The setting is the location, where the scene is taken place or where it is set. Examples of typical Thriller settings would be dark alleys, haunted houses, mental wards, urban city etc. Usually only a small range of colours will be used in the setting, being blacks and greys. This can be used to show how normal and plain life is, contrasting with the villains in the film as they create a dramatic and fearful atmosphere. The setting we intend to use is a girls bedroom and a forest as they are the two most well known thriller settings because you can change the lighting in the room making it more scary and intense. 
The iconography we intend to use is a phone as it will be used when the victim receives a text message from this unknown mystery man. 
-Props are any movable articles or objects used on the set of a film. In Thriller films props often determine the narrative, identity of the characters and genre. A range of props can be used such as police, mobile phones etc. However typically weapons are used by the villains to reinforce the violence and fear overall, being knifes, guns etc 

Facial expressions & Body Language
Facial expressions that will be used for the victim will moslty be: 

• confused expression
• scared expression
• frightened expression

These expressions will be able to show the audience exactly how the character is feeling and what is going on inside their head while they encounter mysterious goings on that is happening. 
The body language used for the victim will show that she is frigthened and vunerable as she is chased through the forest by a mysterious man.