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Mise-en-scene

 The movie I decided to use to show mise-en-scene was the 1997 film, “Titanic.” The RMS Titanic was originally built in 1909 and began its voyage on April 10th, 1912. Now because this took place such long ago, there will be many things we see in the film that we may not see as much in today’s society. Mise-en-scene focuses on 4 main elements, lighting, costumes, setting and staging.

To start off, Titanic starts off by showing an old, vintage video of the actual titanic I presume, showing people on the dock waving good by to their friends and family who are on the ship. Cameras back then didn’t have the capabilities to produce colors as cameras today do. The scene of the ship tells us that this is where the movie will be taking place. The whole movie takes place on the ship, even when they cut from the past to the present, they are still on a ship.


Moving forward, as the scene switches, we see some type of submarine going down into the ocean and soon touches the ocean floor. The ocean floor is dark and is only being lit up by the lights from the submarine, allowing us to see what’s going on. It then goes from showing us the submarine, to then actually seeing the ocean in the submarines point of view. The lighting then gets darker as if the submarines lights went out and comes face to face with the sunken ship.

Because the event of this movie took place in 1902, the clothes are rather different than what we wear today. Rich women primary wore colorful, expensive puffed dresses with hats who usually had feathers coming out of the hats. Women who were less fortunate didn’t really wear big colorful dresses. Their dresses were usually dull in color and weren’t as dramatic as rich women’s dresses. Men would wear trousers and jackets and usually suspenders on top of their dress shirts. Rich men would wear expensive linen suits with a vest and a bowler hat. The costumes represented the time in which this took place in and gave us a better understanding about the period. The costumes also indicated who were more fortunate than another. When it comes to staging and acting, the main characters performance and how well they play their roll play a big part and determine whether people will actually enjoy the movie. Towards the end of the movie as disaster struck and the ship slowly begins sinking, everyone’s face is painted with terror as they scramble to find a way to stay alive. No one is calm, everyone has a scared look on their face, even the captain who is telling everyone to stay calm. You can see the glimpse of fear in their eyes as they try and get the ship to stay put. Their performance allows us to see and feel what the people who actually went though on that day (not like we will actually know).

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