Our mise-en-scene choices:

 

In our opening title sequence, the mise-en-scene we used:

- costume

- props

- location / set design

- performance and direction of your actors (positioning and facial expressions)

Costume:

For our opening title sequence our costumes were picked carefully to make sure we used the appropriate costumes for the roles.

For example:

 Forensics costume we used blue masks and blue shoe covers as well as blue gloves as a white overall. We wanted to get the perfect costume for this role to make it as realistic possible for the shoot.

Police officer costume we bought high-vise jackets and police hats to set the costume up. The high vise jackets made it as relastic as possible and perfect for the personality of the police officer.

The detective outfit was a fall suit, as its smart and not casual and the perfect costume for a detective as it is still obvious for who the character is. 

The mums outfit was basic and as realistic as possible as we wanted it to look proper. We bought the actress basic and dark clothes with leggings and was still obvious to the audience who the character is (the mum)

Props:

During this shoot it was vital that are props were the most important and key things for this shoot due to close ups and design of our opening title sequence. 

For example we made the scene that consists of a car hitting a broken bike with blood all over it and a smashed up helmet into pieces. We added fake blood to the scene to make it realistic and as disturbing to the audience as we could aswell as to make it clear what was happening at the incident.

Frensics props:

Number cards where we put down next to evidence to show how vital the scene of the accident was.

We also used police tape around the scene again for a relastic look to the scene along with another indicator to the audience that it was looked after by police and a crime scene.

We used evidence bags when shooting close ups for when frensics are collecting evidence so the audience can understand the seriousness and hows horrifying that forensics has been involved which usually identifies to the audience that a murder has occurred. 

Location and set design:

Our location for our opening title sequence was at corn hill manor. Which is a old style mansion and huge house. We decided that this would be the perfect background for our shoot as it intails to the audience that it is a big family home aswell as a rich home.

We set up our crime scene in front of the house with garden view in the background, all the props were layed out in front of the house including the car in the driveway so it was as relastic as a car would be driving up the driveway.

Lighting:

We used daylight lighting for our sequence as it wouldn’t make sense if the scene was at nighttime due to the fact that a kid wouldn’t be riding his bike around the garden at night and also you wouldn’t be able to capture the detail for the close ups. So we used clear and bright lighting yet with an element of dusk.

Performance and direction of actors:

In our sequence there were only a few close up faces of the mum and the detective. The rest of the shots were of a wide angle or extreme close up.

For the mum the facial expressions she used were terrified and schocked. Open mouthed and screaming and crying helped the audience understand the disbelief of what has just happend. The positioning of the mum was very floppy and terrified as she was made to look like she was about to have a breakdown and cry on the floor so her positioning was perfect.

As in our sequence no dialouge is used working on facial expressions and positioning was very important.

Furthermore for our detective the positioning was very formal and straight backed all the time. Good posture aswell as a poker face the entire time throughout the sequence.

In conclusion:

All of these choices for our shoot were made to make this as relastic as possible for the audience, making sure all the props are what was used in real life along with costumes.

The Narrative for this opening title sequence is to lead the audience onto thinking what has happened to the child and how. This leads the audience terrified and disturbed as seeing blood coming off a child's helmet puts chills into your spine.

The target audience for our opening title sequence is based around people that enjoy films about crime and murder as the opening title sequence leaves the audience in suspense and builds tension due to how disturbing and frightening this will be or could be.