Mise en Scene considerations...

Props:
Generic conventions

• Old book/s (old eerie feel)
• Rope (imitation of hanging/death)
• Wires (Confusion/strangling)
• Blood (Death/gory/fights)
• Wood (old/mouldy/burning/fire/death)
  
  
  
  

Lighting:

• Daylight/naturalistic lighting- rest of filming (props) (contrast with horror/uneasy feel)
• Night time/pitch black- burning books (mysterious feeling/can't see what's coming)
  

Costumes:

• Pale colours (innocent-main character) (stereotypical victim in horror film)
• Dark colours (dead bodies-eerie feel) (stereotypical villain/monster)

Makeup:

• Natural for main character (innocent, not expecting anything)
• Pale faces for dead people (injuries showing)

All these features are all mainly used as generic conventions in horror films as it helps create that haunted, uneasy feel. The props all connote death and the costumes and makeup all match up with the stereotypical characters in horror/thriller films)

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