Representation and Mise-en-scene

Gender: In my film, there is a boy and a girl. The boy is a vampire and the girl is a human. This is because you would associate a horror film with a vampire guy and a human girl - this is stereotypical of all horror/supernatural movies.

Age: Both my actors are teenagers (17) as this will hopefully get my target audience more interested which are teenagers. Naturally films like this have teenagers playing the characters.

Mise-En-Scene: Mise en scène encompasses the most recognizable attributes of a film – the setting and the actors; it includes costumes and make-up, props, and all the other natural and artificial details that characterize the spaces filmed.   For my film, i've made sure that the vampire is dressed in a t-shirt, jeans and a coat - this is how the vampires dress in Twilight and The Vampire Diaries. I've also made sure that the girl has blonde hair (wig) - even though the main girl character in The Vampire Diaries has brown hair, there is another 'main character' who has blonde hair, my film sort of goes against the stereotype of this because the main girl characters in The Vampire Diaries and Twilight both have brown hair. 

As for the location I want it to be a natural location with natural light. Although vampires could be filmed anywhere I felt that outdoors in the open and in the woods would feel good. Viewers can relate to horror movies in the woods.