Iconographies for psychological thrillers mise-en-scene

Iconographies

In typical psychological thriller the mise en scene is one of the most important parts of making the film/clip this particular type of genre.
Some examples of props, make up, sets and costumes that an audience might see in a psychological thriller such a psycho are: knifes, shadows/silhouettes, small rooms or places, running water, street lights and covers over objects.

The props in our film The Forgotten Truth that are going to help symbolise the genre of psychological thriller are going to be:

• A knife
• Blood
• Shadows/unclear images(out of focus)
• Eerie lights(over exposed during mental corridor scene)

Typical settings for psychological thrillers range from dark sets that you could possibly find in horror films to over exposed white scenes that daze the character as well as the audience.
Some examples of locations/ sets that could be used in psychological thriller could a an island, prisons, mental institutes, small rooms etc....

The settings we are going to use to help represent that The Forgotten Truth is a psychological thriller will be:

•  Small rooms
• Empty over exposed corridors
• Parks

In at lot of psychological thriller the makeup is normal/natural  (like everyday makeup). The way mainstream companies make the makeup symbolise thrillers is they make the characters look more ghost like (white) or use makeup to show that some injuries have occurred.

In our film we are going to use makeup to show that Lily has been killed therefore she is just a figure of Damians imagination.

There are many types of costumes that could be used to portray the film as being a psychological thriller however, it is the combination of ordinary clothes mixed with themed clothes (e.g. if it is set in a prison then the actors show wear jail clothes)that create this affect.

Link to section about character costumes