Mise-en-scene | Costume Research

Setting

For our setting we wanted to film in a house but mainly a bedroom. To decide on our location we each took pictures of our room, this showed us which room we thought best suited the description we had and portrayed the emotion we wanted. We decided to use my bedroom as it was small and dark, this was the most like our description as we originally wanted a room that was small, dark, clostraphobic and needed to look like a teenage bedroom with child qualities.

Lighting
When we were shooting in the bedroom we wanted it to be dark and murky to portray the sadness that our character felt. But the darkness also helped to show how it was a teenagers bedroom as it is stereotypical for teenagers to have dark rooms.

Costume/Make Up
Along with the room and lighting we also wanted our costume to be dark. Our actor wore all black which represents the depression that we were trying to communicate. We had our actor tie up there hair to show that our character was distressed, but it also kept her hair out of her face allowing the audience to see her face and emotion. We used minimal make up as we did not need it to show anything.