Media Language- Mise-en-scene

Mise-en-scene

Setting and location – Relates to the location and place of events, the setting can either be built from scratch or it can be real. Setting can play a key part in a film due to the fact that from a glance we can tell the whereabouts of where filming has taken place. The location is a key aspect of any film, however, it plays a specifically important role within our film. This is due to our film requiring a location that appeared derelict of abandoned to make our film seem more realistic. 

This is one of the many locations

where the filming of the survivors being chased by the zombies occurs. As you can see it is a vast, open location which help to portray the situation the survivors are in due to the emptiness of the scene.This roughly where the end parts to our film was produced. This location was chosen to show the contrast between how calm and relaxed one location can be and then make it dangerous by adding the Infected and our Characters

In relation to our film, we are filming in a large open park, ideal for a lot of zombies running towards a group of helpless teenagers and the local college which appears abandoned.

Props... Props can be any objects present in the scene and anything in which the character interacts with. These can be anything. Within our film, these props consisted of pieces of wood acting as a defensive weapon.

Costume and make-up...The only costume will be that of the Surviving characters because we aim to not show the undead within the film in order to build tension and allow the audience to scare themselves through imagining what we are running from. The costumes that we will be wearing will be everyday dirty old clothes in order to show that this is an apocalypse. 

Lighting... Lighting can be used to focus on a certain person in the shot, they can highlight the individual of the scene. Or lighting can be used to dim the scene and make it appear dark and mysterious, for example shading sections of the individuals body or face.  In our case, we used natural light and a reflective surface in some of the scenes in order to enhance parts of the scene with extra light.

Casting and character movement... The film will require good acting in order to make the situation appear more believable. The characters have all been specifically chosen to play rolls that are typically seen within Horror/ Zombie films.