Earlier this semester, I watched The Shawshank Redemption after noticing it was the highest rated film on IMDB. The movie, almost three hours long, at first felt like a typical “prison escape” sto...Read More
Even 80 years after its release, Citizen Kane has retained its modernity and skill in storytelling because of Orson Welles’ forward-thinking and artful use of the various elements within mise en sc...Read More
During our weekly film screenings, I usually take a couple pages of notes; some technical but mostly analytical. However, I found it very difficult to watch and notetake during The Zone of Interest. T...Read More
“Mise-en-Scène”When we look at this term for the first time, we can notice that it doesn’t quite seem like an English word. In fact, “Mise-en-Scène” is a French word th...Read More
In film you can name just about a million different ways color can be utilized. Some films use it to distinguish characters, some films use it to distinguish setting, some films use it to engage the v...Read More
Have you ever wondered why certain photos look so dynamic while others not so much? The answer lies in the same principles filmmakers use: cinematography. As we learned with mise-en-scene, as viewers,...Read More
The term mise-en-scéne relates to all of the elements placed in front of a camera during a film. Wes Anderson displays mastery over all of these concepts in his film The Grand Budapest Hotel. However...Read More
One of the things that I noticed in The Grand Budapest Hotel was that every man had some sort of facial hair, and if they didn’t, they drew it on (Zero). Considering that makeup and character appear...Read More
Upon watching The Grand Budapest Hotel for what is now the third time, I took particular interest in a specific aspect of mise-en-scene (forgive me, I do not have the accent marks): costuming! A large...Read More
One of the things that really caught my eye in The Grand Budapest Hotel was the beautiful architecture of the hotel itself shown throughout the movie. As we learned, one of the main pieces of mise-en-...Read More