Mise-En-Scene

   For my Mise-En-Scene project, I decided to watch and talk about the Batman movie staring Christian Bale, The Dark Night (second movie in the Dark Night Trilogy). This movie is one of many Batman movies, however the Dark Knight Trilogy is considered the best of the Batman movies. For a little amount of context, for any Batman fans, in this movie we get the introduction of the Joker. Which if you know anything about Batman, Joker is the arch nemesis of Batman according to the movies and comics. In the Dark Knight, Christian Bale plays the role of Batman, and Heath Ledger plays the role of the Joker. 

    For lighting, we can look at literally any scene with the Batmobile. When Batman is chasing or diving anywhere in the Batmobile, the producers use the effects of Low-Key lighting to make the darker color of the Batmobile pop out more. What the producers will do is darken the background while Batman is driving in order for us to focus more on the Batmobile. This is not the only example of Low-Key lighting that is used in the Dark Knight, low key lighting is also used in many scenes with Batman present to highlight his dark silhouette to make him look more menacing. In both of these examples, the lighting made the scenes feel more intense and or make Batman feel like a menacing character. 

    Now for the costume portion of The Dark Knight, we look at Batman's costume (Bruce Wayne's suit). Batman is notorious for the suit he wears as the "caped crusader, he wears an all black armored suit with a cape and a cowl. The cowl has tips on the head to make him resemble a bat. The reason Batman uses things that resemble bats because of trauma he suffered as a child from bats. The costume adds both a moral meaning to the character as well as another intimidation factor with the all black suit. 

    The setting of a scene is what really shapes the dynamic of the whole movie or TV show. For instance, when the Joker and his goons are robbing a bank in Gotham city, the setting is obviously a bank. If the producers of the film decided not to film in a bank setting, it would not be a bank robbery at all. The setting of a bank gives the audience that emotion to lock them into the scene in order to see what happens next. 

    Lastly, we talk about staging, a big ideal in staging is blocking. Blocking is when the most meaningful character in a scene appears the closest to the camera. In the Dark Knight, when joker blows up the hospital, he is walking toward the camera. As he walks toward the camera, it makes the audience focus on him since he is the most meaningful to the scene. This adds a more intense feeling to the audience as we see the Joker blow up a hospital and see him walk away untouched. 

Film Elements Graphic Organizer

 

5 Master Edits With Sound

 

Contrast: In the beginning we start with soft piano music when Enmanuel is sitting calmly inside. Then it switches to rock music as he runs to the camera. This used Juxtaposition to add emotion to the scene of the energy given from  Enmanuel. 

Parallelism: For this shot we used a voiceover, for two reasons, one because it was a long, drawn out video and added character to the video. The second reason because voice over of Enmanuel rudely making fun of me, even though he has the IQ of a toddler. 

Symbolism: For symbolism we used nature sounds to representing diegetic sound, and it adds to the feats of nature

Simultaneity: In this clip we used Post-Synchronous dubbing to add the "ooh piece of candy" to add a comedic relief to Enmanuels stupidity. 

Leit Motif: For this clip we used the ticking sound to make the audience feel and hear the time running out.

Enmanuel shouldn't graduate 

Five Master Edits Arrow Analysis

 

In this clip, we see Oliver Queen (the main character), is talking to his colleagues Felicity Smoak and John Diggle. Specifically, in this scene we see a present day clip of Oliver and then the camera jumps to a flash back of when Oliver was stuck on an island.  This is an example of the Contrast edit, because it shows Oliver in two different scenarios acting differently in each scene. In the flashbacks of the show, we usually see how Oliver is developing from a rich stuck up teen to a trained killer who fights crime(which is who he becomes). 

Now, in this scene we see Oliver inside an apartment building looking for someone, kicking down doors. At the same time the camera cuts back and fourth to Felicity looking for a location of the man they are searching for. This scene displays simultaneity, because if you watch the scene you can see the scene cut back and fourth of Oliver searching a building while felicity uses her computer skills to try to hone in on the mans location that they are searching. The cutting back and fourth between the two people adds a sense of suspense in the scene. 

In this scene we see John Diggle chase the bad guys of this episode while undercover. As Diggle is chasing the main bad guy, Oliver (Green Arrow) is fighting the other bad guys. This scene displays a Leit Motif, I say this because when Oliver comes into the camera it plays the clip of his theme song associated with him almost like Darth Vader and the Imperial March. Adding a Leit Motif in this scene provides the viewer with a visual and audible queue that the Arrow is in the scene. 

5 Master Edits

 For the first shot (contrast), I recorded Emmanuel acting normal and then acting crazy, this shot shows two different sides of one person. For parallelism, I recorded myself walking down a stair cases and walking, we also filmed Emmanuel doing the same on a different staircase, to show how we will be connected at some point. For symbolism I recorded a tree and Emmanuel writing on paper, the shot cuts back and fourth between the two. This shows the symbolism of trees that humans turn into paper and use. For simultaneity, Emmanuel recorded himself in a first person view “stealing” a phone, and another part as a security camera filming him doing that act, looking like it is shown at the same time in two different views. For Leit Motif, I filmed a shot where the scene would cut from my watch to a clock, showing how time was running out. 

10 shots comments

 Enmanuel Cannabal 

 For Enmanuel's shots, I went over the tilt shot, head on shot, and high angle shot, these are my comments on each:

I enjoyed the way you used the tilt shot on the trojan, the tilt shot almost gave it an intimidation factor as if the trojan was larger than life. The head on shot was good because you could feel like something was flying at you, however I could have thrown the shoe better. I liked the high angle shot the most because of the way it was panning up so we could see the whole of the surroundings. 

Jason Jones

For Jason's shots, I reviewed the choker shot, POV shot, as well as the reaction shot, these are my comments on each:

 The choker shot that you did was interesting, the shot shows him deeply staring in the camera as if he was concentrating. The POV shot was good, because it portrays exactly what you are doing and how you see the world. Lastly, the reaction shot was my favorite, it showed the surprise in the dudes face as you barged in to the stall. 

Top Gun Movie Review

                                        Review of five Camera angles in the Movie

                                                              Top Gun (1986)  

                                         Producer: Don Simpson Jerry Bruckheimer         

         There are several different reason why I chose to use Top Gun to analyze five camera angles. One simple reason is the fact of how much action is in this movie, aside from the action there are also scenes of suspense and drama. Bringing in these factors of difference in tone and emotion in various scenes, gives a great selection of camera angles to chose from. 

          As the movie opens through credits and scenes of airplanes take off, we get an Establishing shot of an aircraft career with an F-14 Tomcat is landing. According to "Use of Long Shots in Film" Establishing shots are used to show the audience the setting of the upcoming scene. In the beginning of Top Gun, as said before we open on an aircraft Carrier in the Indian Ocean, this shows the exact surroundings giving the audience an Idea of where the scene is taking place. 

 

    

                     In this next scene we are presented with a choker scene. In this scene we see the Pilot, call-sign Cougar, freaking out, after he was missile locked and almost killed by a Soviet pilot in an MIG 28. This scene is a close up of Cougars face showing the deep emotion of the character after the dramatic experience. 

             

                      This scene is called a Head on shot, the context of this shot shows two fighter jets flying towards the camera. The head on shot shows the tension as these two pilot dog fight towards the camera. 

            

              In this scene we see the main character, Maverick talk to his instructor, Viper about Mavericks father. In this scene the directors chose to use medium shot in order to see the characters mood in the shot. You can see how they are conversating and their body language and how they feel. 

                

         

                 In this shot, this is when Cougar is in the after math of the dogfight. The director decides to do a super close up shot of Cougars eyes. As we look at it, we can tell that he is sweating a large amount, we can also see the gaze he has like he is not mentally present in the situation. These super close up shots show the extreme feelings of the character almost like we can assume.