During this task, I chose to a short film with the genre
horror about a brother and sister called Harrison and Georgia Grimm that find a
trail of sweets in the forest and decide to follow it, when they reach the end
of the trail Georgia dies. This short film was made to show that even if you
think that you are safe you probably aren’t, and this is shown through the fact
that up until the character Harrison actually saw the hooded figure, he thought
he was safe following the trail of sweets that her finds. If I was to actually
film this film, I would have used a low and high angle when Harrison first saw
the sweets as to show Harrisons perspective of the sweets and to also show
Harrison picking up the sweets from the sweet’s perspective. I also would have
used a either a close-up or an extreme close up of Georgia’s face as she was
being killed to show the true emotion on her face and I would have used a lot
of two shots because the two siblings went on the journey together.
In this essay I will be exploring the cinematography and mise en scene of two scenes from the 2006 film, Pan's Labyrinth, by Guillermo del Toro. The two scenes that I will be comparing will be the Pale Man scene, where Ofelia meets the horrifying Pale Man, and the dinner scene, where Captain Vidal hosts a dinner party for his colleagues. In the Pale Man scene, the cinematography practically mirrors the cinematography in the dinner scene with the Pale Man sitting at the head of the table, which is exactly where Vidal sat in the dinner scene. The mise en scene of the Pale Man scene suggests that the Pale Man is a monster because on the walls of the room there are illustrations of the creature eating and murdering children, also the costume and make-up used to turn Doug Jones into the Pale Man looks physically disgusting and scary. In addition, throughout the scene and whole film there are constant references to circles and eyes, circles being a reference to the type of narrative th...
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