Creating a Story - My roles and Mise en Scene

We (Romina, Natalia and I) have arranged particular roles within the for the coursework. That way it would be clearer and easier to evaluate when the time comes. We used the BBC website in order to help us understand the demeanour of each position easier.

As of this I have the roles of:

• Costume - Finding the costume and making sure that they're on set.
• I will find the costumes by calling hospitals and buying clothes. We, as a group, have arranged to split the cost of such.
• Hair and Make-Up - Ensure the visual aspects of the character are correct.
• The same goes for make-up. If we as girls don't have the make-up that's necessary, I will buy it.
• Assistant Camera Woman - As Romina Noli would be the main character (on-screen) I will help to record with Natalia Frain-Gutierriez
• We have the cameras at school.
• Budget Manager - I will be buying the essential equipment, therefore in charge or it. Plus I do mathematics, deemed to handle the money.
• Scriptwriter - I'm assuming it would look like a play, therefore I have the most expertise.

Romina was in charge of writing/creating the storyboard. Using the framing order, I have listed (below) the mise en scene within each. That is if 'mise en scene' means not the costume the character wear (http://www.proseproductionsink.com/1102_Licata_Elements_of_Mise-en-scene_modified.pdf). But the furniture and props that would be seen, anything that would be referred back too later on in the film . Basically, the fundamental structures of the setting.

Keep in mind that the RED RING is a part of the costume.

Frame-by-Frame mise en scéne:

• Frame 1 - Interrogation Room
• The flickering light - Classical thriller conventions, nothing it constant, always on edge.
• The clock - It can show her thoughts and that time is going really slowly for her, how long she's been at the hospital and that she may never get out.

• Frame 2 - The Kitchen (flashback)
• The table - as it is used to show her mother's death and the sanctuary where Ralivia hides before the end of her mental state.
• The white table cloth - What her father wrapped her mother in. Only to be known later on in the film. It also symbolises purity as it is white, which is iconic as an impure deem was commenced

• Frame 3 - Interrogation Room
• Repeated

• Frame 4  - The Kitchen (flashback)
• Repeated

• Frame 5 - Interrogation Room
• The tablets (Ralivia takes) - Her constant medication she's taking. Not actually making her better (as previously explained).

• Frame 6 - Interrogation Room
• Not "Mise en Scene" parse but the focus would be on the characters body parts as well as the Doctor's hand and in particular, the Red Ring.

• Frame 7 - The Kitchen (flashback)
• The Mother's hand and her blood on the floor. Again not "Mise en Scene" but something of which is vital.
• The white table cloth in view too.

• Frame 8 - Interrogation Room
• Repeated (it's a camera angle frame).

• Frame 9 - Interrogation Room
• Repeated (it's a camera angle frame).

• Frame 10 - Interrogation Room/ Hall
• In the Interrogation Room it's repeated.
• In the Hall the focus is the
• Length of the hall - To show how far her journey would be, and that it's never ending.
• Doors - To show where she is destined to be. Where she will always be -hidden away and cast aside.
• The lights - The same as the Interrogation Room. However, it is lighter, to display how her hope is actually getting brighter.

• Frame 11 - The Bedroom
• The post-it notes and newspaper articles - Exhibiting her past and the future, the truth that she would eventually find out. As well as her obsession with both that and herself.
• The door - Likewise to the hallway doors. Adding on that that would be where she's stuck.

• Frame 12 - The Kitchen (flashback)
• Similar to Frame 7, plus the hand of the Father and the RED RING like Frame 6.

There is a conflict with ideas for the last frame(s). There is option one, which is mine and Romina's idea (I talked - or wrote(?)- about this before). On the other hand there's Natalia's that's option 2, where she wakes up screaming.