Monday Funday Blog

Greetings once again, my fellow classmates! I'm sure you're all excited to hear from me once again about what we did in class today. Well, buckle your seat belts, because I'm about to tell you. Our objective for class today was to be able to identify elements of mise en scene as a more specific way to analyze a film's craft. We were also reminded to keep working on our college essays that are due on the 25th, or begin them if we haven't. The objective was kind of an extension of what we did on Friday in class, except we dove into the actual analyzing part more. In the beginning of class, we went over what we consider to be the definition of mise en scene. What we came up with was that mise en scene is the choices made in the setting of the scene. After we went over this for a little bit, we broke up into our groups and began to analyze the mise en scene elements of our pictures that we got on Friday. My group got the picture from "Burn After Reading" which was fairly easy to analyze. There were a lot of good components in the shot to make a good analysis of it. Once we were all done, we went over some of the pictures, and we made some comparisons. Someone compared the picture that my group got to the shot from "Her", because of the camera angle. They compared the fact that they were both shot at eye level. An extension of mise en scene elements that I found outside of class was in the show "Narcos", which is on Netflix. What I found was an example of Subsidiary Features. I don't want to give any spoilers to people that may watch the show, but there was a group of people in the background of the last shot of the season finale, which left me under the interpretation that they will be making a new season. The makers of the show did a good job incorporating these people into the shot without focusing on them too much. Thank you everyone, and Dalton is out again.