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I decided to comment on the mise-en-scene of the Francis Lawrence movie, "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire." I chose this movie because the Hunger Games series is one of my favorite movie series, and this one has the best examples of mise-en-scenes, especially for costumes and makeup. I wanted to show appreciation to the elaborate costumes and sets that are used to create the movie.  After the first few scenes of the movie the main character, Katniss Everdeen, is summoned to meet with the the president of Panem, President Snow. Snow is sitting at his desk and Katniss is sitting in front of him. There is low-key lighting in the scene, which comes from a stain glass window behind Snow. This low-key lighting is meant to show grimness and seriousness, and Snow and Katniss are talking about Katniss' actions in the previous Hunger Games, and how there are major consequences to her actions. Also the blocking in this scene has the President sitting in front of an icy stain glass w...

 1. Music: In the first video of symbolism, I used the Avengers theme song, because the first part starts off with a group of fictional heroes then transitions to a group of local heroes. 2.Post Synchronization Dubbing: I added two different sounds of post synchronization that were not apart of the original video. In the first shot of me with the calculator, I added the sound of a clock ticking. I used this sound because math is a stressful subject and all I can hear when I take math quizzes or tests is a clock ticking and the rush to finish before the bell. The second part I used a boing sound because that was the closest thing I could find to match the sound of crossy road. 3.Non-Diegetic: In the first clip I used the sound of crickets, because the class was very quiet and boring. In the second clip I used the sound of children cheering because they were acting like children and you could see the joy on their face from acting like children.  4.Post Synchronization Dubbing: I...

    This is the simultaneity scene. In this scene the staff are informing the guests that they need to get the stuff they need and evacuate their floor and get to the top deck. This is the floor that the wealth guests are staying on, and they are the privileged ones that get access to the life boats. The designer of the boat thought the Titanic thought it was unsinkable, so life boats were not necessary and there is only enough for half of the people on the ship. These guests don't know it yet but the boat is sinking during this scene and many have already died. This is the parallelism scene. Leading up to this scene a group of deep sea divers were exploring the shipwreck of the Titanic looking for the Heart of the Ocean necklace, and found the safe that contained the drawing that Jack did of Rose. The drawing was put onto the news, which is when Rose, who is now 103, saw it and called the ship saying she had information about the drawing. So, Rose and her granddaughter were f...