Mise-en-scene

Costume/Make up

My main character will wear normal yet mismatched clothes. I will have a button on his shirt done up wrong to show that he cannot function simple things and highlights his childlike mental features. He will have stubble to highlight that he cannot look after himself well and perhaps fingerless gloves to show a stereotypical convention of a homeless person, because mentally, he is also homeless. 

My young boy will wear clothes considered 'un-cool' to highlight that he is an outcast. he will be wearing his shirt tucked into his trousers and maybe his hair gelled to the side. 

In contrast, my boy number 2 could be wearing his hair spiked and clothes considered 'cool', such as jeans, trainers and a tee shirt with a cartoon on. 

As boy number 2 grows older he continues to wear 'cool' clothes like jeans and a nice suit when he gets married. He is clean cut and has short hair to highlight his normal place in society. 

As we see flashes of my young boy as his older self, he will wear what seem to be hand-me-down clothes like big baggy teeshirts and will continue to have his hair gelled down. He could wear glasses and have braces to highlight that he is an outcast. In the first few flashbacks he could be wearing light coloured clothes, whereas as the flashbacks progress they could get darker to represent the darkness of his nature.

My young girl wears a white dress throughout. This stereotypically represents her innocence. She could be wearing light makeup as she grows older to also show this, instead of wearing heavy makeup. Her very natural appearance makes her seem sweet. 

Location/Setting

The fact that my man is alone on a busy street at the start of the sequence could emphasise his loneliness and isolation of mind. 

I chose places like a park and a school corridor to use because they are very childish places and the disruption of these makes the disruption more effective as childish places are supposed to be innocent.

A church is used for the wedding to represent religion. Religious people are normally very moral people and this makes their murders more dramatic, as the deaths are to good people.

I chose to use the couple's house for the murders because it will seem more isolated therefore more dangerous, and can also represent the isolation of the main character's mind. 

Props

Knife - stereotypically dangerous. Creates tension as it links into death.
MC could be playing with lighter - fire = danger and therefore tension
Rope and gag that has tied woman up - more danger, renders her vulnerable and helpless, stereotypical convention

Characters/ Actors

Older actor for main character to seem more menacing.
Young boy for the child to show his innocence.
Will use appropriate actors for characters and hopefully people who have studied drama to make my film more effective

Lighting

I am using dull lighting for when we view life from common society's eyes. It shows the dullness of their minds. The colourful bright lighting used from my main character's perspective shows his colourful and unusual mental state.