R+P Post 7: Our opening sequence's planned mis-en-scene

Camera:

• Partly hand-held and containing lots of camera movements like tracking, pans, zooms and focus shifts. This will be to mirror the on-the-spot, live style of documentary filming.

• During the interviews we will set the camera up on a tripod and keep it very steady, making sure that all the interviews are shot in an identical way. This is very conventional of documentary style filming and will help to tie our sequence together as a constant in amidst all the hand-held and camera movements.

Lighting:

• We plan to use very natural lighting to try and represent an un-staged and realistic tone to our sequence. This will help it feel more natural and believable as an actual documentary.

Naturalistic lighting

Settings:

• Our whole sequence will be set inside Toby's house. For shooting we will be using Noa's house. It is conventional for documentaries and mockumentaries to focus mainly on one location for example the house in What We Do in The Shadows (2014) .

Props:

• Photos of the family.

Family Photos



Wedding Photo

• Photo of Joyce and Tony's wedding day with Tony's eyes scratched out.

• Invisible acrylic thread for use in making things appear to be moving by themselves.

• Lap Trays with food on them.

• An alarm clock.

Lap Trays

Invisible acrylic thread

Alarm Clock

Costumes:

• Toby- glasses suspended on the acrylic thread. Clothes and Bandages for some shots of him.

• Joyce- Gym clothes for her Pilates and yoga.

• Kenny- typical clothes for a teenager, for instance jeans and a shirt.

Inspiration for Kenny

Inspiration for Toby

Inspiration for Joyce