Mise En Scene
- Settings & Props- Costume, Hair & Make Up
- Facial Expressions & Body Language
- Lighting & Colour
- Positioning of Characters
As a lot of our film opening sequence will be taking place in various places, with it ranging from shots from outdoors to shots from being indoors, for instance our interview and us recording in the recording studio. It was simple to find a place outdoors as we wanted to illustrate C.Dot 'rough' time on the street, so therefore we had to find a place with a concrete wall that will represent the 'concrete jungle' of London, where C.Dot is from. Whereas for myself we wanted to portray that Keith is in owe of mother nature so we found various shots of areas with trees and grass to represent that Keith loves nature like God does because God created it, unlike man made things like concrete. This juxtaposition of these two characters work well as it becomes comical as Keith and C.Dot are not meant to be together as they do not look like the 'ordinary' perception of what we class as a duo.
Our costume will also represent the characters and illustrate what kind of walk of life these two come from. For C.Dot my group decided to show him as a 'chav' with lots of gold chains, bandannas and bucket hats. This gives off the impression of C.Dot being a rough kid thats grown up on the streets, but C.Dot voice contradicts this all as he sounds geeky with a little stutter which the viewer will find amusing. For Keith, we wanted to portray him as holy, clean cut person. He clothes are all smart with various different shirts and one simple gold cross chain with a dog collar which makes him almost look like vicar which hopefully our audience funny as it contradicts C.Dot's costume so much.
Facial expressions will be important in our opening sequence as C.Dot is suppose portray someone who is very serious and means business with his face; as in a lot of the shots, C.Dot stars into the distance longingly and then stares at himself in the mirror with a blank expressions which gives our opening sequence a serious a tone but when C.Dot does a voice over in his geeky, it contradicts this and makes it now amusing to watch. This is also reciprocated with Keith in a lot of his shots he is in because he also looks into the distance longingly.
For the green screen shots and C.Dot's talking into the camera scene, we used a studio light as it reduces any imperfections and makes it look more professional, which is our group main aim. For the shots outside, we was limited by time as we had to film it, in sunny weather for Keith scene and for C.Dot's scene we needed it to be dark and gloomy to reflect his emotions. Pathetic fallacy would work well as The Disciples myself and C.Dot's existence, and when we are not together C.Dot is more affected than myself.