Mise-en-scene #2

    In my previous post, I talked about two important mise-en-scene factors that I will be implementing in my portfolio project, and how I would be using them. Those factors were costume and set. Today, I will be discussing two other factors in mise-en-scene that I will be incorporating in my project, lighting and props. These are two parts of a good film that the average consumer does not really think much of, but makes a big contribution to the composition of a piece and its effectiveness. When one thinks about it, lighting and props are big parts to making a piece make sense.

    First, I would like to talk about lighting. like I mentioned previously, lighting makes a big difference in the context, ambiance, and feeling that the audience gets from a scene. When investigating how to incorporate lighting correctly in my project I decided to look at some pieces that are of mystery genre. I realized that a majority of these that matched most similarly to the idea of my project used allot of low key lighting. Because of this, I decided that my entire piece will lack proper lighting. In other words, I plan to make all scenes have only one source of lighting. This will allow more attention to be drown to the main characters actions to the viewer of the piece. Bellow I made a rough recreation of how I plan to use only one source of light (this case being the laptop screen) to create the effect I want for my project.

Now, on the topic of props. Props are vital to adding depth and context to any piece, and good ones reserve there props to only the ones that are strictly necessary. With that being said, with my project I will be using 6 primary props to grow the storyline: A laptop, a desktop, SD card, hone, latex gloves, and black gloves. The laptop will be used in the coding section of the opening scene, the SD card will be what hold the code information, the desktop will be the theoretical device being hacked into, and the gloves will be used as a way to leave the viewer on a cliffhanger. The gloves will help the opening scene fell like one, they will make the scene fell like its being interrupter rather than being brought into a close.