Settings Review

 Review of Settings

Home
Using the home would not be very effective for our opening as the mise en scene would could be difficult to correct. Even if the mise-en-scene could be corrected and made to suit the genre of the opening, this could be time-consuming and be hard to recreate if scenes need to be redone. The setting of a home is also not incredibly impressive and so the plot would have to be very strong to make up for it, which could be difficult to build up in such a short space of time and could lead to a not very thrilling or effective opening.

City/underpass
Using a city/underpass can be quite effective throughout a whole film as the audience can feel intimidated by the big, dark areas and can also associate various landmarks with appearances of the villain which can create tension. However in our opening, we only have a short amount of time and the city/underpass seems to much of a familiar and modern location to create instance fear in the audience. It could also be very hard to get effective camera angles without disturbing the public. We have therefore decided not to use this setting in our opening.

Woods

In terms of mise-en-scene the woods are good to use as nothing needs to be changed at all, meaning it is easy and convenient to film and refilm without any issues. It is also effective as a setting as an audience will immediately associate the woods with isolation and threat. As well as this, we will be able to get some especially effective camera shots and angles in the woods which we could potentially not get anywhere else, such as which grass or tree branches in the foreground. For these reasons, we thought it a good idea to consider using the woods in at least part of our opening.

Abandoned Building
The setting of an abandoned building has extremely successful mise-en-scene especially when thinking about using an impressive building such as a church. This is easy and effective as the building itself is scary and grand so no changes would have to be made to it and it is also more to look at than in the woods. It is also simple to make an abandoned building come across as isolated and as though it hasn't been touched by humans for years, which can make it very thrilling for the audience. One main issue would be finding an abandoned building which we can access without trouble. Despite this, we have decided to use an abandoned building such as a derelict church in our opening alongside the woods.

After some searching, we found a derelict church in Woolwich which we can take into consideration and have inserted some pictures of the location. It has been derelict for many years and has some very ornate features. We could base the location around a religious themed plot.