Mise En Scene

Mise en scene 

You can see in this scene that Scott and Ramona are in love, you can tell by the positioning of the two character and their facial expression as they are both happy, the camera is just focusing on them because the whole of the background is blurred to make you focus on the two characters.

In this scene you can tell that by Scott's facial expressions is is surprised at something and the movie make you focus on his expressions and think something must be important as the background is blurred out almost as if he can only focus at the one thing he is looking and nothing else matters.

in this scene you can tell the movie wants you to focus on Ramona as the lighting is on her and the two people behind her and blurred out and darker than her, so it makes it seem as like the lights up the room with just her presence. 

Movie Camera Angles

This next camera angle is called a close up, it is when you can see a character from the shoulders up, it usually happens when a tense situation is happening or when a decision needs to be made, this gives the viewer a sort of on edge feeling wondering what the character is about to say next.


This camera angle is an extreme long short or otherwise called an establishing shot it establishes the setting so the viewer knows where it is set or what time it was set like Spring, Winter or Autumn, it provides an effect of the setting being huge because you can see where everything is and what everything is so the viewer knows what's happening.



This angle is called a low- angle shot, this is when the camera is placed below the character to make the character seem bigger, this gives an effect of making the character look bigger to show that they are heroic or more important than the other people in the shot.

This angle is called a two shot, it is a shot with two people in, it mostly happens when two characters are talking or when the film or show is focusing on the two people, it shows the viewer that there is a dialogue about to happen or something is about to happen involving them two characters.

This last angle is called an over the shoulder shot, it is when a camera is placed over a characters shoulder and looks at another character or a setting, it gives a sort of feeling you are in the movie and looking over the persons shoulder sort of like a POV shot.

My Media Diet.

Todorov's Theory

Task 2 - Todorov's Theory

Legally Blonde

Equilibrium- Elle Woods has it all, She's the president of her sorority, a Hawaiian tropic girl and Miss June in her campus calendar and has a loving boyfriend.

Disruption- Elle thinks that Warner (her boyfriend) is going to propose because he is going to Harvard but instead he breaks up with her because he needs someone serious if he is going to have a career in politics.

Recognition- Elle realises she needs to be accepted into Harvard in order to win Warner back so she takes the Law School Admission Test and scores a 179 (one point below the highest possible score) and gets accepted into Harvard, but when she gets there she finds out Warner is engaged to another student, and when she confronts him she finds out he'll never respect her.

Repair- Now determined to succeed, Elle studies hard and impresses her teachers and classmates, she wins an intern ship with Professor Callahan and she gets involved in a case, Elle correctly identifies the guilty party and wins the case.




New Equilibrium- Two years later, Elle, who has graduated with high honours, is the class-elected speaker at the ceremony, and has been invited into one of Boston's best law firms.

Propp's Theory

Task 3- Propp's Theory

Toy Story

Hero-Woody

Villain-Lotso

False Hero-Ken

Helper-Buzz

Donor-Three Aliens

Princess-Jessie