Lenka’s AICE Media Blog

I chose to watch The Phantom of the Opera to point out the four general mise-en-scenes. Lighting: The film starts out in black and white, which symbolizes their older age after the opera life. In the auction for material from the opera, as the chandelier is being lifted up, the lighting changes to color and everything become brighter. This resembles their young age. Another example of lighting was the scene in which the phantom took Christine under the opera. The use of low-key lighting created suspense and wonder.  Costuming:  Throughout the whole film, the most important use of costume is the phantom's mask. It establishes his character. Since this movie is a musical, the use of costumes is very important. From their performances for Hannibal wearing very colorful and large dresses, to their simple nightgowns, I would consider costuming to be the greatest mise-en-scene. Each and every costume is different but creates emotion for each character.  Setti...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns1yIlzIUpQ I added music, non-diegetic sounds, and left direct sound in these edits. By adding music in the last edit, it creates humor and understanding of what leit motif is. In my symbolism edit, I added Ms. Keegan explaining that we must wear our badges. I added gasps and a "wow" sound effect in my contrast edit, which is non-diegetic, as crowd reactions. Whistling in my simultaneity edit shows that Donte is going somewhere casually but then gets yelled at by a teacher. (sound added). My last edit with added sound was parallelism, where Donte is shown walking. I added a sound effect of someone walking on carpet.