mise-en-scene blog task

 Alezey

 mise en scene blog task : analysis

THE DARK KNIGHT (2008)

Costume: The joker’s purple suit is strong visual for his chaotic and uncontrolled character, immediately marking him as the antagonist within the crime genre and links to the future danger and his flashy yet intense personality.

Lighting: The low-key lighting highlights the Joker as the dominant figure in the scene, making him seem eerie and creepy from the lighting, creating tension and an enigma code that generates numerous questions for the audience and further connotes a psychotic element.

Actor: His relaxed stance and unsettling serious face communicates menace. While his body language with hands put together, creates a sense of mischievousness and a potential action code as to what he did to be in this setting.

Make-up: The smudged clown face paint symbolises disorder and madness, reinforcing his role as an unpredictable villain and visually linking his appearance to his jumbled character.

Props: Although there are no props in the scene but the setting of him being in a cell connotes isolation and absence of weapons, linking to his eerie facial expression and a potential escape.

Setting: The dimly lit cell connotes the dark tone and aligns with his chaotic character, and creates an enigma code that builds suspense and action codes hinting at violence, and includes the binary opposition element (bad vs good) which emphasises his threat and the overall genre of the film.

THE CONJOURING (horror)

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