Wednesday, October 04, 2006

The picture that I chose for my Gianetti's 15 Mise en Scene Analysis techniques is the color picture of the child and man in The Sixth Sense. First, I am going to talk about the dominant, or in other words, the eye attraction. The first thing that I am attracted to in the picture is the young boy that is frowning and looking very grave. The reason I am drawn to this first is because it is the closest to the screen and it is really the first color that you can see. It seems to me that the lighting key is somewhere in the area of a combination. It is both high and low key, hence a combination lighting. It seems like it’s bright but if you look closely at the picture, you can see that the lighting is coming from the top right corner and it is not really very bright. In terms of shot and camera proxemics, the people seem to be relatively close to the camera and I think that it’s the idea of the shot, to show emotion and see how they’re feeling. It seems, from the picture that I see, that the camera is looking up at the actors. There really isn’t too much to elaborate on, the angle of the camera is self-explanatory. The color values in the shot seem to be dark and pale. In the shot, you seem to see many depressing colors but also in the background, you catch a glimpse of a beautiful powder blue. In terms of the “lens/filter/stock”, there really does not seem to be any distortion in the picture. I mean it looks a bit darker than a normal shot but other than that, it seems to be just your standard shot. The subsidiary contrasts in the picture are the powder blue wall and the picture of the world. Once I’ve computed that this is a picture of two people in room, I am drawn to the picture and the wall because the picture is on the wall. It just really makes sense. Also, the blue offers some color which I am naturally drawn to. There really is not too much packed into the image except your standard background actors. In terms of compostion, I have no idea what you mean by that. It seems to me to be organized and put in an orderly sequence. The shot is clearly taken in a closed room. There is no trace that it is outside or that it is in an uncontrolled environment of any kind. The framing seems to be very tight and there does not seem to be a lot of room to move around in. The shot just seems to be taken in a room so it is not like they can roam wherever. Honestly, I do not know what a plane is in terms of film and so therefore I would not be able to determine the depth. It seems that the caracters occupy the majority of the space in the shot. There is still a little room for them to fit the picture of the world on it. The characters are looking at the same thing and, in terms of camera placement, it seems to be above the camera. Finally, there seems to not be much space between the characters. All of these 15 components make an image what it is today in the film industry. It helps us break down the image one by one and truly analyze it.

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