Mise-en-scene

 Mise-en-scene is a major part of developing a film, however there are a lot of different aspects of mise-en-scene, and not each one is relevant to our particular film opening.

    Originally, I thought that lighting would be an important aspect in our film opening, and we as a group 

The most important mise-en-scene for our film opening are:

-location/set design

-costume design & makeup

    For the location/set design, we are filming entirely inside Andrea's house, using her and her parents' room for the sisters' rooms. We plan on decorating the rooms to look more 'girly' by using pillows and throw blankets and other small accessories that would commonly be seen in a teenage girl's room. Below is somewhat of a tour of Andrea's house, showing all the rooms that we may film in, depending on what angles we use when filming. The filming location is nothing out of this world, as it not meant to be the focus of our film opening. Similarly, we are focusing on the use of natural lighting for our film opening. Originally, we were planning on making a contrast in the sisters by using lighting and color, such as using blue lightning to show sadness versus orange lighting to show happiness. However, after discussing our teacher, we decided against this because it would be difficult for the viewer to watch. To emphasize the character's contrasting emotions, we will focus on costume design instead.

Costume Design:

    I think we will style Mara in a dark, baggy outfit like this to emphasize her sadness and somewhat of a disinterest in looking presentable.

For Valerie, as a group we have not discussed an outfit, but I believe we will do a simple basic outfit, in order to show how she is just like any regular teenager. I will insert inspiration below.

We will most likely have both characters with little to no makeup, as we are going for a more natural look. However, one of our actors,  Andreina, is very talented in doing makeup so there may be a little bit of makeup to show the characters emotion.

Here is an example of natural makeup: