mise en scene

Mise-en-scene
The mise-en-scene in our interview consisted of being in a small box room located in the Virgin active gym which included a red sofa in which James sat, for the interview the use of the red sofa related back to symbolise the Virgin logo. Surrounding the room was cupboards and a small fridge as this was one of the small staff rooms at the gym, in the background there is a small kitchen area including, a cheap looking bin and a microwave on top of a small worktop.
Behind James on the wall were painted hand prints of all the staff who have currently or still worked at Virgin Active gym. I don't feel that the paintwork looked as professional, however we didn't really have much choice as our original location which we chose was being used for personal training class.

As the location and the surroundings of James throughout our interview were very informal, i felt that this made our interview with James very relaxed and a very informal interview rather than if we were in an office room filming this is because James is sat on a sofa which would be very comfortable for him and would help him to relax a lot more, also because we are filming in James's environment it also gave him an opportunity to completely be himself rather than putting on a bit of an act in front of the camera . I felt that it was more of a casual conversation rather than a formal interview with James.

The lighting we used was very minimalistic and was just used from the celling lights already in the room. This was very useful as we did not have to add any extra lighting to our interview.