Mise en scene

Mise en scene

The mise en scene in my trailer shows a variety of British culture and can set the tone for the movie.

 In the first scene you can see the decor of the house, it gives the vibe of an small house that will be lived in by the older generation; as the younger generation  have more colour and texture in their decor when creating their dream house, they care about the style of what their home looks like. By having this effect is can also give a creepy vibe as everything look plain and unique from these modern homes that have this ‘texture and colour’ decor.  The outside scene shows an angle of the backyard, it shows you the mise scene of the house again, you can see the old coloured bricks used to build the house, this will make you think of tension as it fits into what a horror film mise en scene would look like; creating suspense within the audience.  This scene will look different to a typical Hollywood film as America has new looking houses that contrast with this old looking house, the houses are bigger than the ones in Britain and look more money invested, by having this contrast you can tell that this movie will be filmed in Britain. Another thing is, in this same scene the character goes over to a wheelie bin, this type of bin is associated with Britain as American has  different types of bins , and this bin is seen as traditional; just like Britain’s culture.

The scene when the character is running to the house shows a British style too, as in America they have bigger houses and with them have post boxes outside their homes, in Britain we have post boxes in our door and this can show the audience some differences between American and British movies, letting the audience understand British culture easier.

The characters can also give the audience some clues to what type of culture made this film, as the clothing of the characters expresses the style of country. Luke’s [Henry Danyetta] costume was based on the old fashioned clothes that represented the north east of England in the times of mining. The makeup on his face was to express dirt as though he was living in the ‘old days’ when everybody looked not clean and worked hard to get money.  You would normally see this type of costume in British movies and so this would show the audience another cultural difference and significance to the trailers origins.  Gary’s [Jordan Banks] costume shows a more modern style of clothing but you can tell it’s still a British linked trailer, as people in American may wear more designer clothing and will have a different fashion sense to people in Britain.  The dog Misty, can also signify a typical British movie as ‘sheep dogs’ are commonly used in British movies, for example ‘Babe’, even though America has this breed in their country it always comes back to England as the border collie is most seen in the north east of England, where they are in the country side chasing sheep. Britain is known for their country side and so this links into showing the audience the cultural differences between American and Britain through films. The accents of the characters also help to express the British culture as people in America don’t speak this accent, the audience will be able to tell and understand that this trailer must be a British film as this accent is unique in other parts of the world; this accent will be seen as a north east of England accent.