2 Minute Mise-en-scene Final Ideas

We soon had to come to a conclusion for the final ideas for our mise-en-scene short piece of film as we needed to be able to film in the half term holidays.

For our final plot, we did incorporate the initial idea of using the flashback but decided to use it at the end of the piece as it would then bring another dimension to the piece and no one would necessarily be expecting it and it would fit with the genre that we were going for which was a romantic theme. The plot was to take a couple of young teenagers to the beach and film a short montage of their day there, which included throwing stones into the sea, eating fish and chips, walking along the beach and going into the pleasure beach amusements. We would then film a piece of film with the older woman which would act as a flashback as she is reminiscing on her younger days with her partner shown in the film who either left her, or passed away.

For our casting we managed to get one of our friends to play the role of the teenage girl and boy, which was brilliant because then it wasn't awkward to ask them to do certain things in the film. The only slight problem that we thought might arise was the issue that the two members of cast had never met before so it might've been difficult for them to act in a way that a couple would. For the older woman we used a member of our groups mum, who was more than happy to film a short outro for us.

The location we had to film in Yarmouth as we had to include the big rollercoaster in our film, so we thought that it would be easier to use the whole of the beach to incorporate the other factors of mise-en-scene too. Within the beach we filmed, on the beach front, on the sidewalk and in the amusement section of the beach. The other location we used was one of our members back gardens to film the little outro.

Our final list of props included, the fish and chips which was the piece of our mise-en-scene, the camera which was used to capture a picture of the couple on the beach front and a printed out picture of the picture that was taken on the camera which was held by the woman when she is being focussed on after her flashback.

We just included natural lighting as it would be easier than taking artificial lighting with us to the beach. Also by only using natural lighting it meant that you got a real sense of the environment that they were in and made it completely natural, and with the element of having to include a sunrise it was the best idea to do so. 

Lastly, for the costuming of the cast the two teenagers would be wearing casual everyday wear which would act best to reinforce the idea that everything is completely natural and that they are not being filmed on purpose, yet instead someone is filming without them knowing. The woman would have to be wearing a uniform of some sort as this was a piece of the mise-en-scene we were given.