Mise-en-Scene

Since our film is a dramatic thriller, we plan on relaying a more eerie and uneasy feeling back to the audience to add suspense. This will play the role of having a thrilling plot and setting. As for coloring and lighting, we will be shooting mid to later in the day so it is not too bright out. The coloring of the picture will be a cooler tone which will give a darker effect. Many dramatic thrillers are edited to be cooler toned for this purpose as well. As for sound, Jackie and I plan to add background music to enhance the mood of our film. The music will only be played in certain scenes just to emphasize them and increase the intensity. The background sounds are going to be slow but upbeat with intense noises that gives a mysterious effect. We want our viewers to get a feeling of uneasiness while watching our film due to its purpose of being a thriller.

This is the background music that Jackie and I plan to use in our film. We chose this specific one because it gave us a mysterious and creepy feeling. This is how we want our audience to feel when they watch our film.

This is a clip from the 2017 dramatic thriller “Kidnap”, directed by Luis Prieto. The lighting is a little yellow-tinted to add a bright effect. The audience will not start getting the creepy vibes until the kidnapper in our film begins to stalk Sawyer.
In this title sequence of the 2011 thriller/action film “Abduction”, directed by John Singleton, the text is black in all capital letters but it has a distressed look which correlates with the plot. My partner and I plan to do a title sequence something like this that is simple but still has that distressed look and feel to it.

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