Evaluation of Mise en scene

Costumes


Costumes used in the trailer where typical. For the male role we used a suit making him look important and as if he has an important job.



The killer we used dark clothes because we didnt want too give to much away. We used a black hooded jumper and dark trousers. We made sure the hood was up because we didnt want to show the face too much which is a key factor when making teaser trailers.


Editing

When editing we used Adobe premire elements. This program we found quite difficult to pick up due to none of us using it previously. This made it much harder to use it. Also the computers we used were very slow again making it harder to meet deadlines. However this software is much easier to use than our previous program which was called ULEAD. Adobe is much more complex which has lots more features available such as transitions.
Once we got the hang of things we found it a bit easier to use. Things such as lightening and darkening the shots where really handy for us as then we could film at any time of the day and just edit it later to how we wanted.
Transistions where also much better than the other program (ULEAD) and this made our film look more proffesional and better than the other film we had made last year.



Location

Typical horror locations are:

• woods
• diserted area
• house
• circus
• grave yards
• hospitals
• boat/ocean

We used two of the above. The location is very important because you want the audience to be able to relate to the location but you also want them to feel that there is something completly diffrent to the film making it exciting and new.

Lighting

Lighting used in out trailer is very little. This is because we want it to be dark making it scary and eere. We used spot lights for outside e.g. the swing shot. We used candles for a flickering effect and we used house lights and lamps for inside.

Sound

Sound that we used in our trailer are background music found on the internet - free uncopy writted downloads.
We also used sound effects again found from the internet. I found the sound effects because i felt it was important to have a ambiant sound over the shot because it will make it more significant for the shot. Sound effects that we used were

1. creaking of the swing
2. slamming of doors
3. sharpening of knifes
4. Tap running

This are just a few of what we had used.

Props

Props used in our trailer are knifes, fake blood, sold sign, swing, weather clock, costumes, caution tape, candles and a laptop. Some of these are key horror conventions which indicates what genre we are doing.
We wanted to use props so to make it feel more realistic.





Titles

Titles we used where the following....

1. 'A new home...'
2. 'A new job..'
3. 'A new start?'
4. 'Every neighbour hood has a story'
5. 'This is theres'
6. 'How well do you know your neighbours'