2nd Production Meeting

In our second production meeting we discussed mise en scene further, we adapted from my original powerpoint on costume ideas and changed things:
The Mum: We decided to keep the idea of the mum wearing tight fitted clothing and low cut top to signify the fact that shes naive and also to give her the sex appeal in order to attract the male audience her makeup would be neat and she would be well groomed which could show the stereotypical young mum image which might not be so "clued in"

The Policeman: we decided to take him out of uniform and have him as an undercover detective detective but make sure he had an official badge in order to show authourity and would manipulate the mum to trust him and conform to the expectations of a police officer being trustworthy which then leads to the subvertion of expectation when he changes. he would have perhaps gelled back hair to bring a sort of grimey edge to his character which foreshadows his actual intentions. I took my costume ideas from such films as "The Killing"

We agreed on the location of cornhill, as it has a homely feel to it and also could be useful for the sitting room scenes. The homely feel would add the vunerability and the iscolation of the grounds surrounding cornhill would conform to the typical connotations of the thriller genre.

The kitchen would have worktops which would enable her to be hidden at some points and give the policeman time to check his surroundings out eg: open drawers, unplug phone etc, the corners of the kitchen would give him time to stand neutral when she pops her head up to ask "would you like sugar with that" etc.



Lighting: We want the lighting to be quite low to show that its night time, another typical connotation of the thriller genre, also because its dark it makes it more tense when the mother hears a knock at the door and doesnt know who would be calling at this hour.

Props: We would need a cot of some kind with lots of blankets to signify a baby without actually needing one, we had the idea of having a mobile overhead and toys to give an eery childlike feel to it and also further signify the childs prescence.

We would need a police badge for the policeman as he has no costume and needs a symbol of his authourity to give the mum reassurance. We had the idea of having a phone that the policeman could unplug which would give the mum no chance of escape we would emphasise this action with camera shots to signify her being trapped.

There would be a knife which would be the policemans weapon of choice, also we would need a teacups which we can drop to give a slow motion dramatic effect and lead her to wanting to leave the room to get a "mop".

After discussing this we talked about what we would title our sequence and came up with the title "The Trusting" we came up with this title due to the fact that the mum trusts the policeman which leads to her death and the concept of the title is be careful who you trust. Our tagline is "don't look back" we chose this because we feel its a clever line which sums up the dangers of looking back on your killer.