Week 10: Mise-en-Scene

Gossip Girl (2007-2012)

Season 4 Episode 8

I watched the TV show Gossip Girl and looked and into consideration several factors of Mise-en-Scene such as setting, lighting,  costume, and staging. 

The setting showed the significance because the characters are forced to interact in the big city of New York. However,  Serena and several other characters of the shows that are in the central area of Columbia University. the setting is significant because in Gossip Girl their is a contrast between the lavish Upper East Side where Serena, Blair, Nate, and Chuck in comparatively to Dan and Vanessa who live in a studio apartment in Brooklyn. In this episode, all the characters will attend a ballet to expose Juliet who has a personal vendetta against Serena Van der Woodsen. 

Serena at the fountain.

Costumes play a role because they are going to a ballet and all are dress and beautiful formal gowns.

Gowns of Blair, Serena, and Juliet gowns.

Lighting, low light was shown when Vanessa and Juliet are plotting are dark shows the pettiness in the room, where as at the ballet outside by the fountain show was light and vibrant showing the brightness within the scene and the happiness of the characters. The highlight is usual especially since this show is more dramatic than happy.

Vanessa and Juliet plotting.

Performance is the most notable part of this episode from Juliet almost close to redemption when Nate deceives her to believe that he forgave her, the actress ability to make the audience (me) feel bad for her then hate her shows a lot about her performance. Also, Chuck and Blair who provide comic relief by their dysfunctional relationship. My favorite scene when Chuck, Blair, Serena, and Nate exiled Juliet for ruining their lives.

Blair deflecting Juliet attempt to expose Serena to Dean Ruppert. 

Juliet surrounded by Serna, Chuck, Blair, and Nate

Week 8/9: Five Master Shots w/ Sounds

Five Master Sounds:

Laura and I added sound which was a very interesting process. We added music to bridge between the scenes we throughout our little clip. Adding this was an example of non-diegetic sound. This is important because it was bringing the sound together. We also added music to contrast between Laura and Mickey drinking water and coffee with rock music and birds chirping. The scene where I am sleeping and read "Witch Dreams" and I am saying my thoughts out loud and falling asleep. With the parallelism the sound reminded me of the scene that this was inspired by the Breakfast Club. The leitmotif is was a fun one with the examples of Hey Jude playing in the background. This is significant because it showed the fun we were having. Lastly, the scene with Laura dog and the classroom showed the voiceover and post synchronization dubbing.

Week 7: The Princess and the Frog

Five Master Shot Movie Review

The Princess and the Frog (2009)

Directed by: John Musker & Ron Clements

This is an example of simultaneity this is shows the nature animal witch dancing as the animals are also dancing outside. This shows her command over nature. 

This is an example of contrast where Tiana is explaining to her mom her vision for the restaurant she bought. 

This is an example of leitmotif where the antagonist is trapping the naive Prince Navid by inciting him with things such as money and power. 

Example of Parallelism

This is an example of parallelism because Louis refers to how he wants to play with the big boy when he is the big boy himself, and the humans where shocked to see a gator playing trumpet. 

Symbolism

This is an example of symbolism because Ray the light fly’s light goes out which symbolizes his death and he becomes of of the stars in the sky shining down on the characters which significantly to the name Ray.