Wednesday 10 November 2010

Mise-en-Scene Hwk


The central protagonist is identified to the audience as Indiana Jones, played by Harrison Ford as he is holding a lit up torch, which connotes leadership and maturity which relates back to him as the lead protagonist. Indiana Jones is wearing his trademark stereotypical cowboy hat.Moreover, Jones is wearing a beige suede jacket and matching beige trousers which seen to connote adventure and Indiana Jones has been a classical movie where his costume never changes. Therefore, this could be reminiscent to the audience. Also, the teenage character besides him is wearing a black leather vintage jacket stylish in the 1980s and blue jeans, this could connote to the audience that stereotypically, he is a rebel, as well as his greased, low cut hair, which is associated with typical teenage boys.
Within the image, there is use of key lighting, which is used to employ focus on the two characters in the frame. Furthermore, in order to inform the audience in a non direct way that the setting is in a cave, the lighting shows this by dark spots in the image, surrounded by boulders.
From the makeup, you can observe their faces and hands which seem to be dirty, as they are on an adventure and are looking at an object or area in the floor which has some significance and could be an enigma code as the audience intends to discover what they are looking at.
Both of the protagonists appear to be holding torches, as the image clearly signifies the characters holding torches and are pointing towards the floor as if they have discovered something, this could also be an action code.Furthermore,they are crouching on the rocky surface which brings interest to the audience that the protagonists have found something very precious or valuable. Most importantly, the props used could be Indiana Jones' hat, as it is stereotypical in all of the Indiana Jones films and in the narrative and could be associated with the genre of adventure.

Generally, in this image, the
protagonists appear to be in an enclosed cave setting, as the image clearly signifies the characters in a dim light, some pitch dark patches the setting could relate to the genre of adventure, as it is about discovery and could lead to the pursuit of an object of substantial importance and value.

To a certain extent, by looking at the image, the film could be aimed at a C2DE
psychographic or socio economic group, as they enjoy the adventure genre and could be aimed at people who generally aspire to life and want to explore things(explorers part of psychographic, I think) and also the strugglers.

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