Mise-en-scene Set & Lighting

 Mise-en-scene 

Set & Lighting

     Hey there! Today I'm going to be talking about something quite important, mise-en-scene, specifically setting and lighting! 

     Set

   The set for our film will take place in a couple different places, the main places are Dr. Hank Shabata's house, specifically the room where he prepares the drugs, and his place of work, which is a hospital. During the opening the only setting will be his house, inside and outside, but throughout the movie he will also be in the hospital a lot. 

     His house 

   Dr. Shabata's house is average size, and he lives in a gated community. The exterior of his house is white and he has a beautiful front yard, his grass is so green, he has redbud trees, and orchids, they're all so healthy and beautiful. He has to cars, which he leaves in front of his garage, he has an Audi, and a Porsche. The interior of his house is also white, it's very simple, he doesn't have anything on the walls and he barely has any furniture. He has one specific room where he creates all his medicine, that room is quite different from the rest of his house. It's dark and there are a lot of things in it, like notebooks, pens, flasks, etc. 

     Hospital 

   The hospital that he works at won't be shown in the opening, but I'm still going to talk about it since its one of the main sets for the whole film. It's a very big hospital called Jackson Turner Memorial. It's been a hospital for 45 years now, and it's very famous and a very good hospital in California. This hospital performs every type of medicine and surgery, general, heart, brain, ortho, pediatric, etc. Dr. Shabata doesn't perform surgery, he deals with less serious cases. 

     Lighting

   The lighting in our two minute opening will be dark, with the light focused on only what we want to show, so for example, focused on the patients' files when showing it, or focused on the marbles when showing them. Since we are recording in my garage, it'll be dark, so we're going to use a ring light and flash from another phone or flashlights to show the object we want to show. The end of the opening will be recorded outside, during the day, so it'll be bright and we won't have to use any additional lighting.