Mise-En-Scene

 Mise-En-Scene Elements

So... I am back. I honestly never realized how much I would miss blogging but I honestly really have this past week. 

I have been SOOO busy with my school's musical Chicago and with SATs but now I am finally ready to commence finalizing the script writing. I was going to start filming this weekend but I honestly wasn't ready with the script and I sort of steered away from my planned-out agenda (mainly due to the musical).

But now, I am here and I am going to LOCKK TF IN because I already found AND confirmed a location for me to film next Sunday, which is at one of my dad's friend's offices. I don't have any images of it yet, but when I visit it I will definitely take pictures. 

Props:

When beginning my script, I had to think about what the actors would be doing while talking and what they would be interacting with that would influence their conversation and dialogue. So, I am deciding to first set my prop ideas down so I can not only get a clearer idea of what my script will include, but so I can start purchasing or creating the objects now.

Research:

When researching what props to include I had to understand how props affect an overall film: 

A PROPS ROLE is to help a film's believability. The use of several or single-props add context to a film. They come in several shapes in sizes, but their size doesn't determine their worth or effectiveness. A prop is essential to any film, but in some films, you can use props and allow them to represent a reoccurring motif in a film. For example, in any film where Captain America is in, Captain America’s shield is a major prop that represents strength and legacy.

Video Prop Link

 ^^This video was one I watched that helped me further understand props and see some examples of props.

Choosing Props:

For the props, I need to choose props that are appropriate or that make sense contextually in the situation of my film opening. So, since my main detectives are going over their case, I need to have some objects that are involved within the case: the evidence items like the kidnapper's attire or clues that he leaves in each of his kidnappings say a lot about his character. For example, I am going to include the kidnapper's french cap and black sunglasses. In addition, the kidnapper left behind some child toys like a stuffed animal, because they wanted to shove it in their faces that they are kidnapping children, they are having fun with it. (Each item in different locations, this is fourth time of 2-week period: 2 months) Also, I feel like the idea of genre conventions, like what I have done research on, is very useful for this, for example, in a detective's movie some conventions relating to props include a case file, pictures and a white board with sticky notes, and many evidence or papers of how case is going (evidence). So, using these conventions is helpful to see if they are useful for my opening and in how I could include them. Down below (link here) is a picture of an office with some murder mystery, detective office convention:

(for the evidence item I found a great example of how to label them on the pictures I want)

Also, this is a video I had mentioned earlier in my blogs and I remembered that this detective watched a clip of True Detectives and said that a common thing to see in an office is a white board with Expo connecting different ideas of pictures of a specific case, which is something I wish to replicate in mine.

 Moving forward, I wish to have my set or office area located and secured to film for soon. Also, I know I haven't created my script or storyboard yet but I am going to do that soon as well, it has just been so hectic with school and everything but that is my main focus.