Mise en scene in The Asylum

Mise-En-Scene:

Establishing shot

Here is our opening shot, here we give the audience a view of the mental asylum, this was to give an insight into how big of an escape this is as the size of the building lets you know that it is a large scale asylum, it also provided exposition to our audience. The reason we chose this building is because since a few years ago it has been a fully functional mental asylum. this we thought was absolutely ideal for our opening as we feel it still has the eery buzz about it with its dark, mysterious look about it.

Mad house opening

We saw an opening shot used in Mad House and thought that our opening shot could be similar but we would change the context. However, it will still have the same effect of providing exposition to the audience.

POV shot

Here we used a Mercedes car. We used this to signify how old the character is as he is a Dr in his early thirty's, using a Mercedes would anchor his age to our audience, this is a method of age representation we used. We filmed our doctor getting out of the car and locking it to signify to our audience that he had just driven back from the asylum in a state of equilibrium. 

Halloween POV shot

Like the POV shot in Halloween we wanted our audience to feel involved and get the sense of anticipation with a shot through the bushes. As in our film opening just like Halloween there is the idea of the killer stalking their victims. 

This shot is one of my favorite shots of the killer, i think it is very effective, building suspense as we break some of the narrative enigma to the audience showing the full body of the killer. we did this by arranging the position of Curtis (the killer) by shouting out of the window so he was in the right spot. We managed to get the perfect position and used an outdoor light to make the shot more effective to show the killer more clearly.