Mise-en-scene elements

Sadly, since we are not using out the first location, and must film in our garage, we must come up with creative ideas to make our new location look and feel as realistic possible. Through our set, we want to make the audience as uncomfortable as the girls on screen. The purpose of this is to create a sense of discomfort and trauma that sex-trafficking victims go through daily. To create the most realistic film we must place specific items in the set that will capture the audience's attention yet not draw too much attention away from the central plot of the opening.

Small elements are always needed, this can come from the polaroid images we are placing on the walls to the dirty floor and unsanitary looking environment. Everything is essential when placing it on screen, as everything serves a purpose for its placements. For example, polaroids. Their purpose is to show to the audience the number of girls that have passed by those doors before, which in this case we want to be a multitude. We want to give the audience an idea that sex trafficking is not a one time job, it is constant maneuvering of girls from one location to another in order to gain financial success. The dirty floors will show the little care and respect the sequesters give to the girls. The way they get full of dirt by simply touching the location is how we want to show how they are treated as objects rather than women. On the floor, we would also like to include broken dolls and markers, giving the audience the thought of smaller children passing by through that environment. Without a doubt, bugs and roaches will be shown on the girls, further implanting the unsanitary conditions.

In this location, we would also like to place a white background and an automatic printer. The reason for this is to show how sex-trafficking victims must "pose" for their own selling photo. The automatic printer will be used to show the printing of the fake passports and ID's along with the phots of the girls they place on the walls. These photos will be of girls of all different sizes, shapes, colors, and ages to show the diversity in between the girls and give the accurate representation that anyone can be sex-trafficked.  The photos placed on the wall will have a red X placed on top of them representing the "sold" ones. Through this, we would like that the shape of the ones covered in red marker spell out 1% to show the introduction of the opening. The red X also represents the #enditmovent for slavery. Another color coordination we will use is with blue, which is the color for sex-trafficking awareness. We would like to represent this through small items in the room of the color blue that pop out to the audience.


These are visual representations of how we would like the set to look: