Mise en scene

Mise en scene

In our film opening, there is two locations. One is in a church and the other is in an unknown cellar-type location. Considering the horror genre of our film, after some further research, we decided to
keep the mise en scene subtle but effective.

Candles

As you can see from this image, a few candles would have added to the eerie atmosphere within the church.The candle would symbolise light within the darkness of life and would also represent illumination. It it the symbol of holy illumination within the spirit of truth. Candles were normally lit in times of death as they signified the light in the next world, Christ being the light. Due to the candles actually being a source of light itself, it also inputted to the lighting within she scene even if it was a small factor. Due to the candles being associated with Christ, we thought it to be a suitable prop for our film opening which is a reason why candles were used in both the scene in the church and the scene in the unknown cellar

Props within church

Due to one of the scenes being inside of a church, some of the mise en scene was already there but we had a choice of which things we deemed suitable for our scene and some of the images on the wall were what we used. There were also large wood carvings and showed this in our opening in the short flashbacks to maximise the tension felt by viewers. A religious symbol belonging to Christianity is the cross. The Cross is used religiously to represent the crucifixion of Jesus Christ but used correctly in horror films  and it can be used as a force against evil. The cross works well with out opening as it relates to stigmata through Jesus Christ. Due to this, the cross was used in both the church and the underground cellar scene. As there was imaginably many crosses in the church, unlike the underground cellar, we didn't have to make one ourselves so we just used the ones maybe in pictures in the walls or the ones in the wood carvings.

Rosary Beads

Here is a Rosary bead necklace with a  cross. A rosary bead is used by Christians and is used as a form of prayer in the Catholic Church. The beads are used to count the component prayers. People devote their lives to the rosary bead and Pope John Paul II called it "among the finest most praiseworthy traditions of Christian contemplation". Popes and scientists have highlighted the meditative and calming values and elements of the rosary bead. We thought rosary beads would also be suitable as it also directly relates to Christ and is a form of prayer and plays a big role in Catholicism .