Props- Anna

Props play a big part in Mise En Scene as they help identify the character's personality and the environment surrounding them. In our thriller opening, the scenes will feature a teenage girl's bedroom therefore we need to make her, as the protagonist, look innocent, young and kind-hearted. In the bedroom, we will make sure the outlook is feminine by selecting a purple duvet cover, placing mirrors around the room and scattering make up and magazines on the table.
However by including the technology aspect into our opening, it will be difficult to portray to the audience that the pieces of the technology shown like the Iphone, Ipad and the Laptop are hers in the sense that they are not someone else's. When showing the iphone and ipad on the camera, we will make sure to use ones that are white not black as for example the white ipads are known today as more feminine than masculine. We are also aiming to place the iphone on a woman's magazine to show it is hers.
We have decided to include modern day technology in the first few scenes to show to the audience that the protagonist is a young, modern girl and the thriller is produced in the 21st century due to the ipads and iphones being created at that time.

When the camera focuses more on the antagonist's point of view, the scene will show him at a computer typing through Twitter to the young girl. However the lighting will be very dim to identify the danger of that character and give an eerie effect to the audience, therefore the scene won't uncover much of the props situated in the room. the camera will hope to see the outline of the male character but from behind and show that the room he is in is very enclosed and mysterious.

The use of the smartphones and computers will give us the access to portray the main, most important aspect of the film, social networking. We will use to twitter conversations to help establish to the audience that this is a modern day film which will help attract our target audience. By not having music and a tv in the background will help focus the audience and camera on how the use of social networking has been used.