Final Mise Decision
When it came to the final mise decision we decided to change a few things. We wanted to make sure that the outfits that the actors were wearing suited the location that they were in, and that the props also worked well with the location.
On the table we had red and black napkins which we thought were effective in showing the contrast between the two couple and that of their jobs. We thought that black and red really did effectively show the two characters personalities and that's why we wanted it to continue throughout the piece. also on the table we had ketchup. This we thought represented blood in quite a good way. Again like the napkins it has the connotations of blood and death, and also looked a little like blood - which is why we wanted it to be in the centre of the table.
When we were ordering the food we wanted there to be meat, we also wanted there to be a lot of red on the dish - which is why we had things like bacon and tomato's. These we thought would make the piece look a little more colourful.
When we have a look at the male when he is shaking pepper onto his food we decided that a black tub would have been the best thing for him to be using. We thought that it looked like he was shaking death onto his plate - with the connotations of black - which suited the characters style.
For the lighting in the piece we decided that we wanted it to be low-key lighting to really bring out the dominance of the male wearing all black - making him darker and more mysterious - a common theme found in openings in our chosen genre through our research. However we wanted the female to have high-key lighting on her while she was outside. This is because she shows a lot more humanity when she is eventually told that she needs to kill her husband. This then links back to the white clothing that she was wearing in the end.
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