R&P Post 26: Mise-En-Scene Arrangements On Set

Welcome to another post about our filming day in which you will learn about the mise-en-scene planning we had on the set of our film, enjoy!

I was responsible for documenting all the features of our planned mise-en-scene on the day of filming. This meant that on the day I was in charge of taking photographs of things happening behind the scenes (e.g. actors rehearsing, group members discussing the different shots of our storyboard and how to position the camera, etc.), the props, the lighting, the location and the cast.

Behind-the-scenes:

Things that were happening behind the scenes include actors rehearsing their lines, our group setting up our camera equipment, setting up props and more. Below you can see some photos from behind-the-scenes of our set:

The rest of my group start to set-up the camera 

equipment whilst the actors rehearse their parts.

Shakiel practices his technique at the speedball,
showing Cqimere how to do it. 

Cqimere gets ready to hit the speedball.

                                              

Shakiel shows Cqimere how to box in the ring so that she can give a realistic and convincing portrayal of Maya as a talented boxer.










Location: 
You will have already seen some photographs of our filming location from my ninth research and planning post about our location planning. However, I also took some pictures of the location myself to show more specific parts of the boxing gym, which you are able to see just below:

Interior view of the whole of McKenzie's boxing gym.

Photo of the boxing ring which we used for our final part of our opening sequence. 

Lighting:

As previously mentioned, we decided jut to use the lights of the gym itself to give our opening scene a more natural and realistic feel. These are the lights that were provided by McKenzie's boxing gym:

Props:

Another feature included in mise-en-scene is props. Although we did not actually have lots of props, they were still very important in our opening sequence in order to complete it. These are the props that we used: 

         

Drew's boxing gloves

Maya's boxing gloves

Maya's boxing gym equipment bag

Maya's headphones

The speedball that features in the beginning of

our opening sequence

The punch bag that Maya practices with.

Hand wraps put on underneath boxing gloves to protect the hands.

Although we did not have a huge range of props, the props that we did use were very important in completing our opening scene as hey all had a role to play. The gym bag was used as Maya's boxing equipment bag; the boxing gloves, hand wraps, speedball and punch bag were used for the boxing scenes and the headphones were used to represent Maya's focus on her boxing technique when she was practicing at the speedball.