Mise-en-scene

 
Planning post focusing on mise-en-scene element (costume, set, props, lighting, etc.) 

Cambridge!! Hey there! Glad to be here and talking to you about the mise-en-scene in our production. We have outlined every scene, and we have begun to go into detail for each production aspect. To keep this post short and sweet, we are going to focus on the mise-en-scene of the opening scene of our project.

Scene 1 is called the bottle scene; it will depict the horrific displays of abuse Ricky inflicts upon scarlet to set the tone of their relationship. The scene will be set in "Ricky's" lounge, there's a sofa and a tv, there's food on the couch where they were just chilling before they started arguing, the movie is paused, there's a dog barking. Scarlett is wearing white (innocent) Ricky is wearing red (anger, violence). Scarlet runs into the garden when she senses things getting bad as things escalate during the argument, when she does this Ricky aims a glass bottle at her, she ducks, and it smashes into the wall. The lighting is really bright right up until the bottle smashes into the wall, signifying all the light, love and happiness, being stripped from the life she loves, because she does love him, she's just realizing that this isn't the life she should be living.

Adrianna and I created a props list, it consists of the glass bottle that Ricky throws at scarlet, fake blood for when the glass cuts her face after being smashed into the wall, a phone that she holds to protect her head when the bottle smashed, and the food wrappers and photo frame of their couples picture that explain they were having a fun time before and that they love each other.