Mise-en-scene

The director has used a place of minimalism and added home like details to it. However, the costume of the two protagonists highlights to the audience that this place is not there home. This is done through the use of everyday clothing; the father is still in work clothes and the child is still in day clothes. This evokes emotion in audience as they can see the struggle that these two individuals are facing; however, the use of the actors lying down huddled together also shows to the audience that even in their time of struggle they have each other. The use of one central source of light, which is the bulb, creates a dull atmosphere in the scene. The director has done this not only to set the mood but to also allow the audience to feel what the characters are going through. The most important element of mis-en-scene that is utilised in this scene is the setting. The scene being set in a public toilet and the actors using it as a bedroom creates a theme of desperation and hard times which is conveyed to the audience, through the use of tissues on the floor. The use of the camera angle to capture the whole environment is even more effective as it further emphasises on what they are going through and highlights how small a place there in that they can catch it all on camera.




The costumes used by the characters and actors help to reinforce to the audience the fact that they are all superheroes and that the movie is a Marvel superhero comic based movie. Each costume is unique to each individual based on their comic counterpart. The location of the scene displays the carnage and destruction of New York city with fires and destroyed cars everywhere. This helped to create sense of planetary invasion that our heroes were fighting against. There is a very grand scene where the team takes out the biggest alien ship, there is an overture in the soundtrack and a circular pan shot shows how they all stand together to fight against the surrounding enemies, which creates an over all heroic feeling. The scene also uses iconic one liners such as "Hulk Smash" to relate to it's audience.




This is from the adventure movie Tomb Raider. In the beginning of the clip, you see a group of people with guns and also a stoned sculpture coming to life in this ancient Greek museum. This just shows that the whole movie is abnormal because no stone sculpture would ever come to life. Fast forwarding a little further, you would see the some stone sculpture picking up these gigantic swords to stop the main protagonist from shooting it. For some reason, the swords just went to him without him even picking it up which just shows how abnormal it is. All, at the end of the clip you see the protagonist jumping over another stone and jumping out of the building and then the other stone sculpture followed it out until it when into pieces.



The setting for this film is 1940s America, in the south. This is important for the set as it justifies the cotton and sugarcane fields that the slaves worked in. The opening shot of the film is notable not only for it's make up and length of time but also for its set. We are instantly placed into a sugarcane field with the slaves looking into the camera, at us. The tightness of the medium long shot is emphasised by the sugarcane surrounding the slaves who are bunched together. This reflects the crushing claustrophobia that is present throughout the film. We constantly see shots of Soloman trapped by the set; the small shared hut he sleeps in, the cotton fields. Even when Soloman finds himself in the ‘space’ outside the plantation, and we hope that he might escape, the set closes in around him, the tress towering over him and grabbing at him as he flees.