PLANNING- Mise en scene, what's happening ect..

Today we planned our whole opening sequence and started creating our shot list.

We decided that instead of having a radio broadcast it should be a television broadcast, so the film begins with a shot of the television broadcast and then jump cuts to a shot of the protagonist, then jump cuts to a shot of the polaroid pictures with the titles handwritten on the pictures. We thought that this wa sa good idea as it gives us an oppertunity to use some complicated editing as well as establishing the settings and creating an ambiguous tone.

What's happening in our opening sequence:

The film begins in black and white; with a shot of the televison denoting the broadcast from a priest or a Bishop; the non diagetic dialouge continues however there's a jump cut to an over the shoulder shot of the protagonist watching the TV, there's then a cut to the polaroid pictures focusing on a man and a woman, however there are other pictures around but aren't in focus; the pictures are denoting the titles for the film. This then repeats a few times, changing picture and name every time. There is then a shot of the protagonists child playing in another room near where the protagonist is; he then walks to a door and there's a close up of the door handle and the protagonists hands with will be dirty or have blood on. It then cuts to the man on the other side of the door walking down a hallway; colour is then introduced to the scene as he walks down the hallway, then denoting a door with a close up of a lock. The protagonist then walks into the room where the people who are being torutred have been, they aren't in focus and the protagonists face hasn't been shown yet.

This is the idea we have at the moment however we may have to change some things depending on the location we film it at as we may not be able to find soemwhere with a basement. We decided to start planning some of the mise en scene; lighting, makeup, costumes and the location, as well as this we have started to think about actors who could play the parts.

Characters:
male protagonist- religious man, appear to look innocent (not sinister), young man in between 20-30
woman- young woman, in her late teens (18), heavy makeup and provocative clothing, torure victim
man- young man, (18-25) small, weak, torure victim
young child (in between 5-10 years old) protagonists son 

Location:
family home, fairly wealth, quite large house, living room connected to another room where the child plays.
dark, empty room (basement?) space for 3 characters and desk.
coridoor leading from living room/stairs to basement.

Make up:
we will be getting an art student to help us with this as the male torture victim has burns on his torso, we will also need makeup for the protagonists hands and fake blood, the female victim will also need facial makeup and blood.

Sound:
non diagetic: Charlee and Oscar will be making some original music to suit the tone of the film, some hymn music possibly.
Diagetic: Dialouge, sounds of chains and doors slamming, noise coming from the TV.

Editing:
quite slow paced in the beiginning, pace picks up when he walks downstairs into the basement, jump cuts from the pictures, to the TV to the protagonist, editing and sound parallel.

Props:
chains, TV, bibles, crosses, table, pollaroid pictures.