Genre- Mise en scene

When considering mise en scene of our genre, we looked towards popular pieces with similar themes.
Within the social realism genre, there are different key themes being presented e.g.: Trainspotting tackles loss of national identity and drug addiction. Audrie and Daisy, a Netflix commentary on the victims of sexual assault and the ways in which society responds to these victims was a much more related documentary towards our narrative. Our mise en scene needed to be much more in depth than our piece last year as we were presenting a much more sensitive topic.

 We needed to consider lighting and colour when considering our mise en scene in order to match the conventions of our genre and to present the issue of assault as the issue were are tackling in order to address the reaction to it within society. With our chosen colour scheme as predominantly blue (inspired from films such as: The Lovely Bones and Blue is the Warmest Colour). We designed our set in the third location (bedroom) placing various blue objects in the frames of shots that would commonly be found in a teenage girls bedroom.

Our characters hair and make up was simple and realistic. This piece highlights that sexual assault can happen to anyone and therefore we wanted to represent an 'average' female who was attacked. Our actress is to be aged around 18 and therefore we tried to present her to be a school girl as much as possible. Positioning the girl in bed surrounded by objects that anyone would have in their room allowed her to be familiar to the audience.

The use of symbolism allowed us to present key themes around 'Grace's' lifestyle that we wanted to present in our teaser trailer without having to explicitly state with narration. This invited the audience to feel more connected to the actress again. The symbolism was highly important as it provided crucial information that we were unable to vocalise, such as the attempted suicide shown through the 'bleeding' pomegranate. The use of symbolism was inspired by films such as Under the Skin.

Production company titles

Production companies
For our teaser trailer we need to decide upon a suitable production company title to display on screen. When creating our film opening last year we looked at the titles of huge companies such as Warner Bros and Universal, however, as our chosen genre is social realism we decided to do a little research into smaller scale companies that would suit our teaser trailer as well.

• Film4 Productions

This is a British film production company owned by Channel 4, their first production was released in 1982 so it's relatively new. It has a reputation of focusing on gritty, kitchen sink-style films and period drama.

Their work include: 12 years a slave, Trainspotting, This is England, Room

• BBC Films

This is a British film production company founded in 1990 (fairly recent). It co-produces around eight films a year, which is not a lot, allowing attention to fall on those particular films.

Their work include: Brooklyn, Fish Tank, Jane Eyre

• Working Title

This is a British film production company owned by Universal Studios. It was founded in 1983, a year after film4 productions.

Their work include: Billy Elliot, Notting Hill, United 93, Love Actually

• Crown Film Unit

This was an organisation with the government's Ministry of Information during the Second World War. It made films for the general public in Britain and abroad and its output included short information and documentary films. It was disbanded in 1952 so it's not an option for us to use it for our trailer.

Their work include: This is England (original, 1941), Out of true, Target for tonight

• Netflix

This is an American entertainment company founded in 1997, the newest of the above. Due to its growing popularity, it has more recently started to produce documentaries on a variety of current issues.

Their work include: Girlfriend's day, Take the 10, Tallulah, XOXO