Loin du 16 by Walter Salles & Daniela Thomas starts off with the antagonist waking up before the sun is risen. Within the first minute it’s clear this women’s living seemingly alone in community housing, presumably her main conflicts. In order to get by she leaves her house incredibly early and drops her child off at a nursery. Before leaving she sings to the crying baby. This scene focuses on her face and the reaction of the child, revealing how much she loves her child.
Terence Davies film, “The Long Day Closes” portrays the life of a young homosexual boy living in a postwar society. The main protagonist Bud, represents Davies experience of the good and troubled times that childhood and his sexuality brought him. The Tammy’s in Love scene flawlessly applies mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing and sound to depict the underlying message of finding yourself, a theme that is emphasized throughout the film. The use of mise-en-scene signifies the importance of the setting and surroundings by allowing the viewer to make connections between imagery and plot relevance.
At the beginning of A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, Meg’s tone is sad. Meg’s dad has been gone for a long time and he usually writes to Meg and her family. First, Meg and Calvin are talking about her dad and his letters and Meg stated, “Nothing happened… That’s the problem.” Later in the text, Calvin asks what happened to the letters her dad was sending, and Meg said that they just stopped coming. Calvin asks if she has heard anything at all about it, and in the text, Meg says, “‘No… Nothing.’
In the movie The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Jean-Dominique Bauby is diagnosed with locked-in syndrome after suffering a major stroke. He cannot walk, talk, or eat. He is only able to see out of one eye with which he communicates by blinking. During Jean-Do’s struggles with locked-in syndrome, many female characters do their best to make him as comfortable as possible. In the film, mise-en-scéne uses the motif of the color blue to portray the roles of the women and the scenes they appear in throughout Jean-Do’s life.
As a medium for conveying the past, films, specifically docu-dramas, are especially good at making history entertaining. In docu-dramas, this is done through creating conflict between the protagonist and other characters. The weakness of docu-dramas comes from creating conflict however, because in order to do so they sacrifice some historical accuracy. Now this is not to say that docu-dramas have no historical accuracy however, because that is not the case. When docu-dramas sacrifice historical accuracy in order to create conflict they do not sacrifice crucial historical information, they only sacrifice what is necessary in order to create the conflict.
A part of the book A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle’s tone is sad. Meg is sad that she doesn’t know what happened to her father and what to can do to find him. There is proof why Meg is sad and first is, “Nothing happened,” Meg said. “That’s the trouble.” Meg sounds very worried and wonders what actually happened.
George Saunders first published The Semplica Girl Diaries in The New Yorker in 2012 and then again in his collection of short stories Tenth of December, in 2013. The main characters are a middle aged, unnamed man and his family (a wife, two daughters and a son). In an interview Saunders admitted that the inspiration for this twisted story came from a dream which explains the origin of a strange concept in it— Semplica girls, women from underdeveloped countries paid to hang in rich people’s gardens, connected to each other by a wire in their brains. However, the main message is a conscious writing choice. This story explores the struggles deprived people go through and choices they make when facing them.
Kishan Patel Art 2901 Exam 1 Essay 1 (100 points) Early films by Edison and Lumiere involved very simple cinematography, little to no editing and simple realist mise en scene. However, Georges Melies, a theater proprietor and an amateur magician, laid foundation for the new generation films. In A Voyage to the Moon, he becomes first person to introduce a sci-fi film.
One may argue that a straight line is the fastest way to go from one point to another, but only after reading the book, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, readers can truly understand the fifth dimension of our universe, Tesseract. A dimension where you can fold time and space to get to a location faster. When reading the book, you can explore the way to use the Tesseract with our protagonist Meg Murry. Although it did bring her scars and painful memories as it caused her to lose her father. Without a doubt, the Tesseract is a sign of hope, courage, and a lesson in Meg's life.
Hidden Girl by Shyima Hall (with Lisa Wysocky) tells the story of Shyima El-Sayed Hassan, who was sold into slavery when she was eight years old; however, she learns how to use her experience for good, and spreads the awareness of how slavery is still a huge problem today. Shyima was born on September 29,1989 in a small town near Alexandria, Egypt. She was the seventh of eleven children, causing her family to live in poverty. In Egypt, not going to school, being poor, cheating on your wife, and selling your children were seen as normal, as okay. After her sister Zahra was accused of stealing money from the family she worked for, Shyima was sent in her place.
In a wrinkle in time by Madeleine L'Engle the main character, Meg Murray develops into an independent, bright person. After a bad day and sitting in her attic in a hurricane, Meg feels insecure and antagonistic. because she beat up a boy in school for calling her brother a freak. Although that's why she doesn't get along with really anyone.
Briony uses her young age and immaturity as an excuse for her actions. When she goes to visit her sister, Cecilia Talis, Briony says that she was too young to understand what she saw and what the consequences would be. Briony’s “misinterpretation” is supported by Joe Wright with the use of lighting and repeating a scene from her perspective. The fountain scene is repeated to show Briony’s perspective as suggested by a slide show on Prezi compiled by Mikayla Paterson. In the library when Briony sees Cecilia and Robbie Turner being intimate, her face is half in the light; half in a shadow to emphasise her confusion.
This is evident in Act 1 when the setting of the play begins with an engagement party and the lighting is "pink and intimate." However, when the Inspector arrives, the lighting quickly becomes "brighter and harder." The adjectives "pink" and "intimate" portrays aspects of isolation and creates a dim setting, symbolising the ignorance they have towards the lower class society. However, the adjectives "brighter" and "harder" connotes hope and truth; this dramatic contrast in the atmosphere creates tension in the scene and maintains an appropriate atmosphere through the play. Moreover this, during the final moments of Act 1, Gerald is suspected of having an affair with Eva Smith as the Act ends with the question "Well?" by the Inspector.
Every time when Sophie appears, she always wears clothes with red elements, such as red hair band, red plaid shirt, red dress and red lip gloss, which help shape the stubborn character of Sophie. In the Ward where Julien’s mother stays, and at the scene where Julien and Sophie confess their love for each other, the cool colors have been adopted, which is contrastive with the general warm tone of movie. At the end of movie, in describing the movie, the yellow tone is adopted. On the one hand, yellow creates a feeling of happiness and warmth; on the other hand, it is often adopted in the scene of memories. By choosing the color of yellow at the end of movie, the director leaves audience the space to imagine, to guess whether Julien and Sophie were buried under cement or spent the rest of their lives hand in
I have chosen the film Lolita as it is one of my favourites but also because every scene is eye catching and you can tell that thought has been put into all the little details yet everything is subtle. The particular scene I have chosen to analyse is the scene where Humbert sees Lolita for the first time. I think with regards to cinematography, lighting and miss-en-scene this scene has the most to write about. In the scene Charlotte, Lolitas mother, is showing Humbert around the house as he has just moved in.