Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Pans Labyrinth Misc en Scene

In the clip from Pans labyrinth the director uses the dimly lighted room , murals and shoes to explain things to the audience without telling them but instead showing them. As the clip starts you can see a story unfolding with the intelligently used imagery in the see, you first have the murals that show the monster sitting on the table eating children you than have the shoes representing how many children the monster has eaten and you also have the monster entranced in a sleep like sate sitting on a chair in front of table as though he was ready to eat and on the plate in front of him you find his eyes. The lighting in the scene is mostly natural lighting and highlighting. The fire is a natural light that illuminates the entire room keeping it visible but dim. The lights on the ceiling illuminates and draws attention to the murals on the walls.By using the fire the director has made the scene look like any other room but as you can clearly see with the murals and the monster that is not the case. The make up in the scene mainly centers around the monster you can see how they have completely covered his face and have drawn a lot of attention to his hands that are covered in blood and his long nails it is also emphasized how thin the monster is by his legs and multiple parts of his skin hanging off of his bones. In this scene you also have the young girl who wears a simple outfit suited for her time period she wears a green dress possibly drawing attention to the nature in the film and its importance on the whole movie. All of the dialect comes straight from the actors themselves, meaning that it is diegetic, there not much dialect mostly panting like when the girl first realized what the monster eats and when he is awake and the monster screaming. For the behavior of figures you have alot of the camera angles showing both the girl and things around her like the food laid on the table as she approaches the monster and her reaction as she sees all the shoes of children that the monster has already made a feast out of.

1 comment:

  1. "All of the dialect comes straight from the actors themselves, meaning that it is diegetic . . ." -- Do you mean "dialogue"? What kinds of camera angles contribute to meaning?

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