Aice Media Portfolio (Mise-en-scene)

 Mise-en-scene Planning!

Low-Key Lighting - 

    The entire purpose of the film opening is to introduce the immediate idea terror in the horror aspects of the film. I wanted to mainly create suspense, with increase in the tension of the film as the characters progress through this terrifying experience. In order to accomplish this I'm using techniques like low-key lighting in order to incorporate darker visual aspects to the film. I want to highlight on the idea that something always lingers, hiding in the darkness. I especially use this technique in order to add jump scares and catch audiences off guard, for example in the planned scene where hands randomly from the darkness wrap around the face of the wife. I want to incorporate fear when thinking about dark places, how anything can occur how "anything" could appear. I also want to mainly incorporate this technique during the reveal of the main character witnessing this entire ordeal. I want to highlight on the fear and trauma inherited through the eyes of the main character. This horrifying setting also including development to his character, adding trauma, and psychological harm. 

I want the low-key lightning to come out somewhat like this.

Setting -

    The setting is also an important feature throughout the entire film, this mixed with the low-key lighting will enforce horror and fear. The entire reason that I chose the hallway of a house was to give the idea of never being safe in a world like this, even from the sanctuary of your home. The idea of hearing, witnessing, experiencing the brutal death of your parents from your own home is meant to add on to the psychological side of the film. I also planned out how I'd use the rooms in the hallway to my disposal, mapping out the distances and the ways the rooms are faced so that I can utilize them in the film like I'd drawn out in the storyboard. Within the rooms, I plan to just have COMPLETE darkness, showing only the characters, I want to use low-key lighting here to insinuate a sense of suspense as something could be "lurking" in the background, then using this tension to create a jump scare. As mentioned, I want to focus on the idea that it's impossible to survive in groups, focusing on the loss o family, friends, love ones, and how you're never safe in this world.

The type of feeling I want to emit throughout the film opening.