Mise-en-scene for Children's Film

Props

Play dough – we will be using play dough to make each of the characters (horse/unicorn, turtle, penguin and squirrel) so that it is easier to move each of the characters when filming. The horse/unicorn is going to be the biggest to show that he is shown as the main character.

Paper – We will have a green A3 piece of paper for the grass and a piece of A3 blue paper for the sky. There will also be trees, grass and bushes made out of paper that will give a 3D effect on screen.         

Bubbles – We will have bubbles when the horse has a dream/idea of becoming a unicorn.  

Pin – a pin will feature when the horse comes out of his dream of becoming a unicorn and wants to go on the adventure. This will give a cartoon effect of how ideas/dreams can burst!

Costume

We are not doing live recording so we will not be using any costumes, but each of the play dough models will have their own type of costume made out of play dough. For example, the squirrel will have red play dough to show its fur.

Lighting 

The lighting will be all natural, but if we find that we need to add some artificial lighting we will use a lamp. But our setting is a forest so the lighting will be natural and slightly darker then a field in the morning sun.  

Make up

No makeup is going to be used.

Setting/Set

We will have a very basic setting with a blue sky and green grass. We will have a 3D effect of grass that stands out with different heights, and a couple of trees to give a forest/wood effect.   

Colour

The whole of the film is going to be colourful. All the characters will be bright and vibrant so they can be seen from the background. Also as it’s a children filming opening with bright colours the younger children will know all their colours and be able to remember the characters by the colours.

Sound

All the dialogue that the characters are going to be saying is going to be diegetic, and while they are talking we are going to have an ambient sound of a forest with footsteps and other noises, by creating a sound scape.

All the music that we are going to use is going to be created on garage band to create a small sound track or many small sound tracks for the film. These will have a constant empathetic sound throughout. The music will be non-diegetic, so that none of the characters can hear it.

Some sound effects will be added to particular things (for example, when the pin comes onto the screen and it pops the bubble, we will use a popping sound to make the pop sound more dramatic. Also a small use of Foley may be used if the sound effects do not give the right effect that we want.