Mise-en-scène- "When applied to the cinema, mise-en-scène refers to everything that appears before the camera and its arrangement—sets, props, actors, costumes, and lighting.Mise-en-scène also includes the positioning and movement of actors on the set, which is called blocking. These are all the areas overseen by the director, and thus, in French film credits, the director's title is metteur en scène, "putter on scene."
This narrow definition of mise-en-scène is not shared by all critics. For some, it refers to all elements of visual style—that is, both elements on the set and aspects of the camera. For others, such as U.S. film critic Andrew Sarris, it takes on mystical meanings related to the emotional tone of a film." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mise_en_scene

CHARACTERISATION-
In our opening sequence we wanted our main protagonist to represent a modern young adult who had taken recreational drugs. For costume we dressed our main actor, Jessica Hutchinson, in a flowy little party dress with lots of jewellery to help represent her age and portray that she had got dressed up for an expected enjoyable night. The flowy little party dress was great at showing Jess's movement and looked great in slow motion as it shows every twist and turn Jess did. The outfit also helped build on the representation of the character's unstable mind. It also created contrast between the character and location, as the costume chosen was not typical for a woodland exploration. We also put Jess in ripped tights to show that on her drugged exploration she had stumbled, fell, and hurt herself; but she was unaware of this due to being high and tripping out. This helped build characterisation further and also added to the mise-en-scene of the sequence.

For make-up we decided to go with red lipstick and black eye make-up, as we thought this would be most effective when smudged and rubbed about on Jess's face. It helped give a clear visual outline of her moving through insanity during the sequence and helped build characterisation and mise en scene also. We decided to leave Jess's hair down and wavy, but we back combed parts of it and fluffed parts up to also show how the character was taking no care of herself whilst drugged and exploring.

PROPS-
We used very few props in our sequence as we wanted most attention to be focused on the character and the atmosphere. During the sequence we did inject experimental props such as glow sticks when Jess was spinning, to try and create added colour to the shot, but this didnt work as well as we had hoped, as no added colour occured whilst filming or when edited. We used snowdrop flowers in some shots, showing Jess playing with them to show her on a high and happy. We chose these flowers as they were pretty and gave off a positive engergy, which added to Jess's happy high in the sequence and also because they were easy to get hold of, as they were growing arounf parts of the location.