Planning: Considering Mise-en-Scene For Your Opening

COSTUME: 

When it comes to costume, we first and foremost went for practicality and the nature of the circumstances. The killer will be working with a lot of dangerous chemicals, so he has to be wearing a gas mask and protection goggles. Instead of conventional, see through ones, we decided to use ski ones - they reflect all the images (which may be a disadvantage when filming, but we will try to figure something out), dehumanising the killer even more than the eerie gas mask. He will also need protection gloves, which we decided to keep yellow, just like the air filters of the gas mask. The Killer will be wearing a tracksuit (adidas, ideally, since it's the most popular brand right now and it is likely to exist in the future). 

   

The character of the victim will be planned in less detail, as most shots will be close-ups on certain aspects of his body and, as a dying victim, he will not need to portray as much exposition or personality through his choice of dress. However, he will need to indicate that he is of a high class, and so we will keep this in mind whilst choosing his costume.

PROPS: 

Our opening will require a considerably large amount of props. Our list includes: 

• animal stickers (specifically pig) - the killer sticks one on his mask at the end of the opening
• scraps of paper/receipts 
• Schweppes - which will act as the main glowing chemical
• food colouring
• artificial foam - for the murder scene
• an iPhone
• a pair of bright headphones
• a bowl full of fortune cookies
• flasks - the type does not matter, as long as they look scientific
• all the scientific equipment we can get  
• a 'conspiracy theories' type corkboard 
• a sharpie/highlighter - so the killer can cross out the pig
• animal photos (the zodiacs) - to put them on the corkboard
• a mirror 
• the sign 'TOXIC' 

In the search for scientific equipment me and Emma have visited the science department; they agreed to lend us some flasks and general science oriented 'stuff'. Additionally, they have given us some great suggestions for safe and impressive looking experiments we could use in our opening (plus, we have also found out that we could borrow a smoke machine from the school, so filming one of the scenes would be considerably safer: since we have thought about using solid carbon dioxide, which is not the easiest to handle).