The film “Mississippi Burning” directed by Alan Parker is a film about the racism in the state of Mississippi. In the movie there is a scene of a bunch of white KKK members that burn down a church that had just been filled with black civilians. Alan uses a number of camera angles, music, dialogue and lighting to make the scene more interesting and to build up the watcher’s suspense
The first technique that Alan uses is music, the music that Alan uses in the scene is both diegetic and non-diegetic. The diegetic music is the black people in the church singing, this makes the scene feel more powerful and also gives us a feeling that something is going to happen. The non-diegetic music comes in after the black people have left the church the music