Mise-en-scene of ‘CARMA’ our Thriller opening...

At the start of our thriller opening there is a photographic montage of images showing the wounds of murder victims.

These are significant to the narrative as the letters form a word; ‘Carma’ (seen above).

Our group modelled the injuries on our own skin for the photographs that are shown in the opening of our thriller.

We did this by experimenting with the necessary resources (chewing gum, a sharp/blunt object, red ink or food colouring and foundation) after doing some research on how fake cuts are created.

We chose the method of carving letters directly into gum ,which is placed on the skin to protect it, and then enhancing with coloured ink because it seemed relatively easy which was good as we have never done something like this before.

The letters are seen engraved into different parts of the characters bodies (hand, neck, foot, arm and stomach) which is also important concerning the narrative.

Make-up:

Make-up:

At the start of our thriller opening there is a photographic montage of images showing the deaths of murder victims.

For two of the death scenes featured in this we used make-up to create injuries which have been caused by the murder of the victims in the narrative.

The gunshot wound shown in one of the pictures was created by using a mixture for fake blood (made by one of our group members) which was then applied to the characters face to make it appear as though they have been shot in the head with a gun.

The character who has died for being strangled with a chain had a pink/brown powder applied to their neck to represent a burn mark on the skin from struggling before they were killed.

Make-up:

One of the props we used was a fake gun which is featured in the photograph of the victim who was shot.

Another prop we used was a chain; shown in the photograph of the victim who was strangled. They also have their hands tied up with rope, however this is not visible in the final image we used in our opening.

In the photograph of the victim who was poisoned, a small glass tube is shown to represent the poison. For this we filled a glass tube with some water and glitter so it looked like a dangerous chemical substance of some kind.

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