The Mise-en-Scene of our thriller.

Micro element, Mise-en-scene is all the things that are in the frame for the audience to see. The majority of the time, the mise-en-scene allows an audience to get a feel for the film or dramas setting, location, characters and genre.
In our thriller piece, "The legend of the Sphinx" the mise-en-scene is deep, dark and what an audience would expect a typical thriller to be like. Here is an example of a thriller opening that we've found that we believe is similar to the effect were going for however it doesn't provide the audience with the right storyline of the death of a young female.


At the beginning of the film, we're showing an over the shoulder shot from the detectives point of view into the bathroom in which girl, Aquanetta is lying dead on the floor. To have a more effective look were using darker and more bloody makeup (Done by Abby Tucker.) Were also using a more effective wardrobe (styled by Fiona Sterne) this will include, a torn white or cream t-shirt to show the violence without seeing it on screen.
The location of the death scene will be in a white bathroom covered in blood, we liked this idea due to the fact the colours will be contrasting.







Further into the 2 minute clip, the shot appears into the location of a dark garage. This is where we see the detective in a long shot wearing formal clothes with natural makeup. The feel we were going for here is danger and darkness something which the detective is not afraid of.
The props included in this scene are a scrap book (which the detective will look through) pictures and a tape recorder (which will be playing a constant riddle throughout the 2 minutes.)

The sound within the clip is both diegetic and non-diegetic. We chose both of these because we felt they brought a different feel for a thriller. The non-diegetic sound includes sound effects which we will be creating ourselves on garageband and it will be playing at the beginning.
The diegetic sound we will be using is going to be heard though a tape recorder which will be playing a riddle throughout the entire 2minutes. We felt this is will bring a certain effect that will prove the genre to be a psycological thriller.













The lighting throughout the opening of "The legend of the Sphinx" will be mainly diegetic as we want to create a natural feeling for the audience to be engaged into it, however as the genre is thriller, we may want the lighting to remain dark for the whole two minutes. With a dark effect we hope to build tension for the audience and create a good typical thriller.

Our mise-en-scene will be very similar to the opening of the film, se7en starring brad pitt. This film was an inspiration to us therefore we felt it would be good to include it into our piece.