Planning: Mise-en-scene for opening

Costumes


For the costumes, there is only one character in our opening which is the caretaker himself. In order to portray the caretaker in the right way to the audience watching our film opening, we needed the costumes to be correct and have a specific feel to them. The character of the caretaker will be dressed in all black. He will be wearing a black hoodie/jacket which will also have a hood. The dark shade of the costume should add a sense of mystery and enable the audience to pay more attention to the opening and question it. Secondly, we do not want the face of the character to be seen, therefore the hood will help cover the facial features of the caretakers face and head area. As the caretaker is not considered to be an important member of the school with a high social status within the school, the hoodie/jacket represents his lack of importance and is also suitable for his role within the school. To continue with the dark shades and to keep the caretaker into character, he will wear black trousers. This will enable him to merge into the background whilst filming, which will make it more difficult to see his facial features and with the lighting, it will add to the affect. As a stereotypical caretaker is normally picking up litter and sorting out the school technical problems, he will wear work gloves. These will become bloody to portray to the audience what he actually is like. To keep the whole theme of the black shade, the caretaker will wear black work boots.







Props
Once we had researched and looked deeper into a typical caretaker and his role, it enables us to come up with various ideas for props that could be linked with the caretaker and his surroundings. We will add a twist to each of the different caretaker objects. Example, work gloves with blood on them.

All throughout the opening there are various different references and clues to different children who have all been murdered by the caretaker. We will be using fake blood, which we have borrowed from the Performing Arts department within our own school. The blood will add a dramatic twist to the caretaker.

To show the different missing children that the caretaker has brutally murdered, we have chosen to use newspaper articles that have taken place, these will be burnt by the caretaker using a lighter.



We have cut out various different photos of the caretakers vitim, which is Tania Garrat. These photographs will let the audience get a clear image of what the caretaker is doing and we will have different shots of the student walking around why the caretaker, without her knowing following her.

   We have took the mise-en-scene into alot of consideratino as we have put surrounding abjects that all link with the caretaker, in the audiences view. All the tools are found within a working area were a caretaker is associated with.

 Here we are using a knife that looks dangerous and could do harm to anyone. It is sharp and portrays that the caretaker may be using this knife to kill his victims.