Planning Mise en scene - Miss Georgiou

Intro-

Main scene - The main scene is set on a isolated bridge in a dark public park, later at night. This scene will be shown throughout the whole clip, it is the focus point of her ready to commit her suicide. The fact it is isolated and at night creates vulnerability for the victim and we feel sympathy for her as we want her to survive. This is conventional to a thriller as the sympathy emphasises the fear we feel for the victim and the suspense as she is under threat. There is various iconography used throughout this clip, the main thing being the knife used as a murder weapon. The knife is an orthodox murder weapon used in most thrillers. It shows gore and blood increasing the shock for the viewers. It represents death and foreshadows events about to happen, furthermore creating suspense for our audience. The lighting and colour in this science will be very dark through the use of low key lighting. One effect this has is that it shows night, making the victim more isolated and vulnerable. By doing this we feel more sympathy for her and tension builds as she is in danger. Also the darkness means that less is visible to the audience. The effect of this is that we can inflict the sense of shock more efficiently, easily scaring the audience. In addition to this the dark colours can represent death, this is foreshadowing the events about to take place creating suspense for our audience. The victim in this scene will be positioned at the edge of the bridge. She will have scared, innocent, paranoid facial expressions and will be dressed on bright colours with typical clothes for a young teenage girl. The positioning of the victim shows her about to jump off the bridge and die, by doing this we instantly engage the audience as they want to see our likeable victim survive. The facial expressions shown by her elaborates her innocence and her vulnerability. It again makes the audience feel sympathetic towards her; this sympathy is built upon through the clothes she wears showing her youth and innocence. Overall the presentation of our victim is made out so that the audience can build a close relationship with the young girl. The effect this has is that we become desperate to see her survive therefore increasing the conventional shock, surprise and suspense emotions inflicted upon the viewers. Although we only see the antagonist for a small period of time during the scene, is dressed in a dark hoody, breathing heavily. The dark hoodie keeps up with the hidden identity of the antagonist furthermore elaborating upon the enigma, it builds a sense of mystery and keeps the audience engaged, creating suspense as we want to see the antagonist revealed. The deep breathing no is the antagonist to be psychotic. This makes the audience fearful of the antagonist, developing a sense of fear and tension.

Flashbacks:

• The first flashback shown is our victims house. Britany (our victim) is sat inside the house comfortably watching TV. There is various iconography included in this scene such as the TV, a blanket, lots of pillows and various other home comforts, plus the knife. The house shows safety for the girl and we feel reassured by the home comforts, this is juxtaposed with the eerie presence of the antagonist and the iconography of the knife to inflict fear and shock upon the audience. In this scene the victim will be wearing comfy and light coloured pyjamas. She will be positioned laying on the sofa in a casual way unaware of the antagonist. The facial expression shown will be happy and innocent, laughing at the light hearted film on the TV. However this will change as she spots the antagonist out of the window. Her face will transform into a wide-eyed, terrified look and her positioning will be stood up in the middle of the room, with a very rigid stance showing her fear and terror. The innocent, comforting presentation juxtaposed with the panic and terror stricken facial expressions has a lasting shock effect on the audience. They feel reassured by the home comforts emphasised and by quickly contrasting this with the panic shown through our victim we convey a sense of shock through the frightening presence of the antagonist. Also the light coloured clothing is used to emphasise her youth and innocence adding to the viewers sympathy. The antagonist is positioned outside the window to show his psychotic behaviour. We will carry on with his hidden identity through the use of a dark hood.
• Secondly with have a scene located in a forrest on the way home from school, this is again a isolated setting, however being in mid day we feel she isn't under as much threat. Much like the previous scene this juxtaposition of the eerie antagonist and the friendly natural setting creates even more fear for us as she isn't safe anywhere. The iconography involved in this scene includes the boot of the antagonist and the bushes and trees. The bush and trees shows how she is out in the middle of nowhere without witnesses, it emphasises her vulnerability forcing us to sympathise for her. Also the boot sutterly shows the presence of the antagonist, this inflicts fear  and tension on the audience as we are fright fall of the man. It also exaggerates the enigma as we want to know who he is. The victim will be dressed in a school uniform and will have the calm innocent expression used in the previous scene. The effect of the school uniform is that it emphasises her youth and vulnerability. By doing this it builds tension as we see her under threat. It furthermore builds a relationship between us and the character.  
• The last scene shown in the sequence is set in the dark isolated alleyway. Although not including the antagonist the scene is used to show our victims state of paranoia. The scene is made to seem isolated, scary and dangerous. Much like the main scene the alleyway is isolated as she is made to be very vulnerable. With a lack of witnesses we see her in danger and suspense is built. There is not a lot of iconography in this short scene, however a lot can be seen on the runner who is made out to be the antagonist. Firstly he is hooded, like our antagonist throughout the clip, however he is also seen using headphones. The hood shocks our audience engaging them as they think the antagonist is there and our victim is under threat, however the headphones brings us back to reality as we realise he is nothing but just a runner. The effect this has is that the audience is surprised by the small plot change which is ver conventional to a thriller. During this scene we do not see the antagonist, instead we are only sown the paranoia of our victim. She is dressed up in this scene in teenage clothing. The facial expressions she shows are constantly frightened and edgy. This shows us that she is in danger as suspense is built leading up to the entrance of the runner. The runner will be dressed in bright colours and we will not see his face. The bright colours will be used to show that he is not dangerous or harmful. The effect of this is that it emphasises the paranoia of the girl as she even terrified of an innocent runner.