Creating the mise-en-scene

To begin with, our team members all worked together to make the mise-en-scene as effective as we could. We originally had the idea to hang condoms from the wall of the antagonist with Facebook profile pictures to indicate self content of rape and abuse. Our team spend time to clean the lubricated condoms before blue-taccing them to the wall. To the left is a picture of us cleaning the condoms and arranging them in descending order.

We then stuck each individual condom on the wall and placed a profile picture on top. We used girls facebook profile pictures that we knew and some we didn't to get a variety of different ethnics and ages. We used four lines with roughly 100 girls photos and 100 condoms. This is the final product with all pictures displayed ready for filming.

Costume was very important to us as we wanted to make it clear to the audience that the characters had been abused and raped. Our original plan was to use the professional make-up artist Ellie Nutt. However, due to availability our own team member stepped in (Isabel Shen) to do Frankie and Thuraya's make up.  To the left is a picture of Frankies makeup being done. Although we didnt have a professional make-up artist as desired, we were still able to create an effective and realistic look for our characters. At the left and to the bottom, is the final piece. Black eyeshadow was used underneath the eyes and chin to express a drained look. Red lipstick was used under the nose and on the shoulder to make enigmas for the audience. Smeared red lipstick was used on the left character in order to 

                                                                 illustrate the struggle and force the character was under.

Our initial ideas was to use three or four girls to act. However, this came across too unrealistic, especially because the rapist was supposed to be portrayed as sly and secretive. Therefore, we used three girls tied up instead. Frankie and Thuraya wore minimal clothing with visible bra straps to show signals of rape and sexual activities. Thuraya showed her stomach whilst Frankie showed her chest, this meant the contrast between the clothing created enigmas for the audience, a feature we wanted to achieve. In order to create realism, we scuffed all female characters hair to portray a rough and unmemorable night of the stay with the antagonist. The tights have been ripped to give enigmas of violence and rape. We wanted to achieve three characters that represented rape and looked distressed. As a group, we feel like we achieved this very well considering our limited equipment of make up and costume. We worked well together by listening to our teams ideas and combining them together to create an all in all great mise-en-scene.

Our next task when regarding the mise-en-scene was the lighting. Lighting was a key factor in our opening sequence as it represented the characteristics of the antagonist. In order to achieve this, we shut the curtains and blinds to prevent natural lighting in our camera. This prevented any mise-en-scene errors. We switched all main lights of during the stage where our anagonist is sleeping. We done this to make the start of our opening sequence seem as normal and ordinary as possible. We then used high-key lighting in the bathroom to express the normality of the situation to correspond with the character brushing his teeth.