Group Treatment: Mise-En-Scene - Emily Swager

Emily had discussed with the group her M-E-S treatment and we agreed it was fine. Here it is:

Location

Man running in the flashback is going to be set in the back of our college, at a park called ‘Alexandra park’ we choose this place for exterior scene because it has a lot of trees and it would be good if it was sunny as you would be able to see a shadow through the trees for our silhouette man. Also you do not get many outside noises and not many people go down there so it would not be a problem when we have to come to edit to get rid of the diegetic sound. When the man is sitting in the room we have chosen the studio in our college because it’s very dark and a good place to give out shadows and it would be very effective for our venation blind effect.

Costumes

Both times exterior and interior we our going to have our main man who is running to be wearing wrinkled clothes and black clothes and a little stubble on his chin because it shows that this man is in his late teens and he is not experienced in making rational decisions in life.The shadow is just a black figure so it does not require a lot of costume but my plan was that we get the actor who is playing him to dress all in black and not put any light on him to make him more silhouette.

Lighting

When we come to the interior (man in the room) it is going to be darkness and then it has a few seconds of the venation blind effect over his face. When we cut to the flashback then comes back every time we come back to the room it gets lighter. This shows that he figuring something out which is that the silhouette has been watching him all this time.When it is exterior in the park we are going to use natural daylight on the man running but with the shadow we will need some lighting so that we can put a shadow effect on him on the ground so that it appears that the shadow is bigger and more powerful then this man.

Performance

In the beginning when we see the man in the room his facial expressions is relieved to show that he has just gotten away from something and he escaped. But when we go in and out of the flashbacks you see his face getting more anxious and nervous.At the ending when he is in the room you see his face relaxed and clamed then there is a lose up of his eyes which seem scared and nervous like he has released something.

Props

A desk (available at college)A chair at the desk (available at college)A angle desk lamp (available at college)A fan (for the desk, available at college)A black folder, a pad of paper, a few Biro pens and a mobile phone (to decorate the desk)2x large brown envelope packages (1 to use and 1 spare)A drinking glass and waterA fake knife and a fake gun2x black & white photos of our main character walking, and a paperclip to hold them togetherAn A5 black notebook with a date in itA magazine cut-out collage of a nameless address and phone numberA fake ice-cube (or real ice from the college cafe if they have any)A piece of paper with 'Shadows Present' handwritten in bold onto itThe main character's costume and the shadow man's costume (as described above)