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.
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