Mise-en-scène

Good grief, that room is cold! No wonder she's a killer.

[I don't know why the toilet roll thing is there... ignore it..]

Before we started filming yesterday, we took some time to make sure the mise-en-scène was right...

...so we had a think about what kind of person our killer character is.

Because we're going to have a housemate in it later, she couldn't be too obviously psycho so we tried to construct something...

...that would convey the idea that she is very vain and cares a lot about the way she looks...

...that perhaps she's not happy with the way she looks...

...and aspires to be like the models she sees and envies in magazines.

In fact, she is so envious of these beautiful women that she kills them.

To do this, we cut out some pictures of models from some magazines...

...and stuck them around this fabulous mirror sitting on the desk...

...which is scattered with all sorts of makeup & hair products.

Some of it is in a rather pretty little pot, because that's obviously what girls do...

You can also see a mug in the reflection (it's not in all the shots because my mum had moved it and I had to put it back) because, well, she is human...

Our shock shot is a pan across this very drawer (filled with innocent girly things that also fit the character) to a knife!

Apart from nail varnish and an ipod, there is the Complete Beauty Book...

...and a reading book, because you might keep one in your desk drawer, with a lovely fluffy bear bookmark and some nail scissors on top...

...in case you didn't see before, the book is Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, which we thought was rather fitting. This is where the knife is meant to be, but alas it was needed in the kitchen :( However, I will take a pic of it at some point, although we may be using Bisma's instead, because it wasn't shining properly... unlike the scissors!

This is that darned window with its silly reflection...

...which you can't see in this one! Apart from the camera's flash.

The windchimes which we use for our opening shot (the bottom window will be open too).

Yeah Bhavika, it's a man.