Planning mise-en-scene. Miss Georigou

Mise-en-scene is important within a thriller film because it brings 5 key aspects together to entice the audience and engage them with the film. The 5 aspects are lighting, body language, costumes, props and setting.

Lighting is mainly low key, creating harsh shadows on faces, bodies and props. It sets the scene for thrillers being dark, mysterious and sinister. Low key lighting is usually used during the mysterious and sinister scenes, emphasising the suspense and tension. As well as creating an unsettling atmosphere.

The use of costumes within Thrillers are very important, they must be life like to the audience, as how the characters are presented is how the audience perceive them. Therefore the more life like and believable the characters are the better the storyline for the audience. Typically in Thrillers the murderer, villain etc will wear dark clothes to enhance the mystery and evilness of them, as well creating tension. However the victims usually wear ripped, dirty, blood stained clothes, reinforcing their weakness and vulnerability, as well as connoting that they have been chased, are unable to fight back etc.

The setting is the location, where the scene is taken place or where it is set. Examples of typical Thriller settings would be dark alleys, haunted houses, mental wards, urban city etc. Usually only a small range of colours will be used in the setting, being blacks and greys. This can be used to show how normal and plain life is, contrasting with the villains in the film as they create a dramatic and fearful atmosphere.

Iconography is any movable articles or objects used on the set of a film. In Thriller films props often determine the narrative, identity of the characters and genre. A range of props can be used such as police, mobile phones etc. However typically weapons are used by the villains to knifes, guns etc.reinforce the violence and fear overall, being 

Body language is important as the audience can tell a lot from homebody's posture or facial positions. For example if somebody is in a stance and on edge, you can see that that would fit into the action genre. The same as if you were to see a nervous young woman playing with her hair with a man you would be able to see that it is a romantic film. Same goes for thriller films. The fear on someones face can grip the audience and keeps them on the edge of their seats.

By using these 5 aspects, the audience can start to build a relationship with the characters in the film. By building this relationship, The audience feels more scared when something foreboding is about to happen, this then creates more suspense and tension.