Asylum Mise-En-Scene & Costume

Mise-En-Scene:

Establishing shot

Here is our opening shot, here we give the audience a view of the mental asylum, this was to give an insight into how big of an escape this is as the size of the building lets you know that it is a large scale asylum, it also provided exposition to our audience. The reason we chose this building is because since a few years ago it has been a fully functional mental asylum. this we thought was absolutely ideal for our opening as we feel it still has the eery buzz about it with its dark, mysterious look about it.

Mad house opening

We saw an opening shot used in Mad House and thought that our opening shot could be similar but we would change the context. However, it will still have the same effect of providing exposition to the audience.

POV shot

Here we used a Mercedes car. We used this to signify how old the character is as he is a Dr in his early thirty's, using a Mercedes would anchor his age to our audience, this is a method of age representation we used. We filmed our doctor getting out of the car and locking it to signify to our audience that he had just driven back from the asylum in a state of equilibrium. 

Halloween POV shot

Like the POV shot in Halloween we wanted our audience to feel involved and get the sense of anticipation with a shot through the bushes. As in our film opening just like Halloween there is the idea of the killer stalking their victims. 

Costume

Here we have a shot from in the cupboard it shows the costume of the Dr. As he is a Dr it is a smart uniform he is wearing, i chose chino trousers and a smart shirt buttoned up as this is what was in our mind as a stereotypical Dr from first hand experience and from watching television. To add to the costume we used my Driving license as an identity for the Dr, as we thought it would add to the stereotypical look.

Here we have the bottom half of what our scream queen was wearing, we asked her to wear shorts as this shows a lot of skin especially with the top she was wearing as well. This was used as it is very stereotypical of the scream queen archetype to be blonde and wear revealing clothes.

This is the killer running from the Asylum. The killers costume, is inspired by the patients escape. He is wearing the Dr's lab coat and was the reason he was able to escape by disguise. We went to the schools biology department and they let us borrow the lab coat, this worked very effectively