How have you contributed to the production?

I was the person in the group responsible for Mise-en-scene. This is definined as: "French term from the theatre that literally means “what's put in the scene.” In the cinema it refers to the elements of a shot—the set, the props, the actors, the use of color and light—and the way these elements are composed or choreographed."


This in turn means that I was responsible for a number of different things that I will go through now.

Props


This means that I had to decide on all the props for both tasks, retrieve them and then put them into the film. There was not much use of props in either of our pieces- for the preliminary task we only used a sheet of paper, which I got from college and my own ID pass which I have on me at all times. For the main task I provided the books that we used in the library- both of the Brian Cox books belonged to me.

Costume


The preliminary task required that both myself and Jack wear our day to day clothing. I decided that on the day, we were both wearing appropriate costume and we used what we had. For the main task I decided that Sean needed to wear a suit, so asked him to bring in this- (so that it fit him correctly). Mario, played by Alex- was also in need of a costume. We decided that a red hoody would be most suitable as it fits in with the stereotype of a bully- we asked for Alex to bring this in so that it would fit. We wanted to hood to be up to reinforce the notion that he is the 'bad guy'.

Location


As both of our tasks involved students, it seemed logical to have both locations in college. I believe this made it very realistic- we used various points in the college, such as corridors and outdoors to make this seem authentic. We also used a public library for a scene in 'Brian'.

Lighting


In the preliminary task we were filming outside, this in turn means that we did not require any additional lighting and used the natural sunlight (hard light). For our second piece we were inside the entire time because we had learnt our lesson from the preliminary task! The lighting inside was artificial light from the light bulbs inside the college, we also received some hard light from the sun which was coming through various windows.

From all of this we can see that I have contributed a number of things to the production, I have arranged everything that you see in the film and made sure that it all works together and is realistic.

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