Mise en scene
Mise en scene is one micro element that is encoded into a
frame, it is a French word and means “everything
within the frame”. I will talk to you about the 5 points and what it did to
represent my characters.
Location
In my film at the start the location creates verisimilitude
as the birds are there and the forest. I have looked into two of the locations
from my film and one of them will be the maze itself. The big walls from the
maze connotes a trapped feeling and when the sun goes down it creates a gloomy
mood. The second location would be the camp fire the fire is bright and free
and the teenagers are chatting and laughing which connotes that the teenagers
are having fun and the atmosphere is happy and warm. The location can show what
type of people are in my film. This location is organised and very clean this
shows that my characters are sensible and mature. This challenges stereotypes
because teenagers are usually immature and are not clean. This will effect the
audience because when the audience sees that the location is dark and gloomy
they will react scared. However if the location in this film has a bright sun
then the audiences mood will be happiness. As a customer a watching this film I
think that the bit when they are all outside doing their jobs and Kendra comes
out of the elevator creates a happy mood.
Costume/make up
The costumes my characters do show the characters
personality and where they stand and what they do in the film. The farmers in
the film wear farmer’s clothes which do look poor and do not look expensive and
the runners wear a t shirt with joggers this represents agility and movement.
The costumes can show upper-class and lower-class creating binary opposition.
Tomas’s costume shows that he is tired and run down as he is wearing unclean,
dirty clothes and doesn’t have a change of clothes. The costume can reflect on
the target audience because when the costume is a certain colour it can mean
that they are good or bad. If the audience sees that that person is wearing a
costume that is blue for example it might mean that they are good and the
audiences like that character. In my film Wicked wears black as she is an antagonist
and brings badness in the world.
Props
The property of the characters can show power and authority.
The props used in my film are very interesting because as Tomas finds a device
in the griever, that prop shows the other characters that Tomas has the power
and knows what he is doing with in the maze. A prop can show iconography and
will be well known with in the film. In my film the sticks in the film what they
carry all the time just connotes who is in charge and who isn’t. The sharp
sticks show that the film will have fighting so the genre will be action. An
icon that is recognized in the film which Tomas finds in the griever which is
really important is called an ideologies. Tomas the protagonist is an icon
himself as he is loved by many because they would follow him and fight with
him. The prop can influence the audience because the main prop can give the
audience happiness like, for example in my film Tomas find a device in a
griever which gives the rest of the teenagers hope and make the audience happy
because the audience is over the moon that they have a chance to escape the
maze.
Colours and lighting
The lighting in my film is really good and connotes
happiness at the start and creates an equilibrium because the sun is out and
they are in a big field. This connotes that these teenagers are free however
the colour and lighting can affect the mood and the emotion in the film. There
is two types of light (low key and high key) when the sun goes down it creates
a low key and creates a gloomy, fear of the unknown and scary atmosphere but when the sun is out then
it is high key and it creates happiness and hope. Low key can be encoded
because the shadows of the teenagers. In my film there are characters that are
very mysterious and we don’t see much of them they wear black clothing because
maybe they have something to hide. Tomas wears light clothes like white which
connotes that he represents hope and celebration but also power this creates an
enigma. The fire in the camp fire shows happiness. In my film there are many
low key moments and this makes the audience feel tense as they don’t know what
is in the film.
Gestures
The gestures in my film can effect what genre my film is
because if my film has characters which run fast and fight which means it is an
action film. As Tomas is new to his surrounding he is not the boss but his
gestures can show that he has some sort of power in the group of people. If the
gestures from all the teenagers are bad that can create a tense atmosphere but
all the teenagers don’t argue or fight against each so it creates a good mood
this connotes that they are not stereotypical teenagers this connotes that they
are teamwork and one unity. In my film the gestures also can show that some of
the teenagers are scared. The gestures can affect the way the audience thinks
too and it make the audience think if that character is a protagonist or antagonist.
In my film chuck acts brave in one scene but is scared for the rest of the
scenes this create empathy for the characters.
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