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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...

  The first edit is symbolism, and in this shot, there is a clip of the Avengers shown before cutting to the Marco Island Fire Department, who are our local heroes. Then, there is the parallelism sot, which is a student holding a calculator, which cuts to the same student playing a game on their phone. The contrast scene starts off with a classroom scene of people working, then cuts to girls on the swim team being goofy before practice. In the simultaneity shot, there is the girls in the bathroom waiting to go out for practice, which cuts to people actually about to get into the pool for practice. Then in leitmotif, I am sitting in the car while the song "Country Roads" is playing in the background.    

 Mia's shot:  I liked your point of view shot because you couldn't tell if you were running to hug her or start a fight with her, so that was an exciting shot to watch. The follow shot was also one I liked because it made you feel like you were going wherever she was, and gave me a sense of adventure. Finally, I liked I liked the extreme close-up shot because it make me feel like I had a personal connection with her.  Isaiah's shot: I liked your reaction shot, she really captured the feeling of excitement when she saw what was around the corner.  I also liked the extreme long shot, it felt like it was the ending to a movie where the character is going into her future. Finally, I liked the pan shot, it felt very rebellious to just rip of your ID when the sign said not to.

  I choose the movie Legally Blonde  This is the opening close-up shot from the movie Legally Blonde . In the opening scene the main character Elle Woods is brushing her hair and getting ready to go shopping with her friends, because she thinks she is going to get engaged to her boyfriend on their date that night. This is an important shot of the opening scene because it helps create the character of Elle Woods who is portrayed as the typical dumb blonde, when she is actually someone who everyone underestimates but proves herself by never giving up on her dreams. In this high angle shot in the opening scene, one of the sorority sisters is heading up the stairs to pass around a congratulations card that all the sorority sisters are signing to giver to the sorority president Elle Woods.  This is a point of view shot from the main character Elle Woods. In this scene Elle and her two best friends are shopping for the prefect dress that Elle is going to wear on her big date, w...

this is full body shot of Mia and Loren talking to each other  this is a close up of Mia grabbing her lanyard then her phone  this is an extreme close up of Mia's eye in this low angle shot Loren and Mia are pointing to something in the distance this is a shot of me following Loren as she walks this is a pov shot of me running towards Mia this is an extreme wide shot of building 1 from the second floor of building 3 this is a tilt shot of the front of building three featuring Mia and Loren this is a two-shot of Mia and Loren talking to each other this is a high angle with Loren and Mia lower on the stairs