Mise-en-scene - Miss Georgiou

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Analysis of mise-en-scene and discuss how it informs the audience of the conventions of a thriller film

The term 'Mise-en-scene' means the arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted.

In the film final destination the setting is in a baseball park. This is not your typical thriller setting. However the weather is dark and gloomy and there are grey clouds above the scene thus adds to the conventions of the genre. They grey creates a more serious tone and the black makes the scene more unpleasant.
There is a wooden spike that appears half way through the trailer clip. This is a sign of weaponry and creates suspense. The audience are afraid of the unknown, the dagger shaped wood is in a crowd of people this keeps the audience wondering what its going to happen. This is conventional to the thriller genre as it is a important tribute to the films iconography.
The characters are wearing normal everyday clothes, everyday make-up and their hair is the same. This tends to be used at the beginning of thriller films as an equilibrium. the scene is set so that the audience doesn't expect the outcome.
When the cars begin to hit the audience the characters run for their lives, they're careless and rude. The audience connect with this as they begin to feel more attracted to what the characters are doing. The scene becomes more intense causing the audience to sit on edge.
This relates to the thriller genre as they're known to make the audience feel uncomfortable and irritable. This helps thrillers to 'scare' and 'shock' audiences on a far more real level.