Mise-en-scene

Whitney Nyamayaro

Lighting

• The lighting of this scene is shown because it shows the vibe that something is happening that is not very normal. Sarah is unknowing of what is happening which is a blurred image at the beginning which you can only see candles but when it come clearer into vision it shows that it is a hallucination of her daughter blowing out the candles out on her cake. Jessica is in a dark room so she is the main focus in the entire room. Anything and everything apart from Jessica has been blurred out so that only the birthday cake and the child are shown. Reasons for this is because Jessica and her birthday are the only things that Sarah has on her mind. Which creates a sense of sadness and tension that make the audience nervous.

Lighting

• The lighting on this picture is mostly centered and in full concentration of Sarah and her waking up from her sleep. Whenever the lighting is limited and there is a darkness around most people you can always expect something or someone to appear out of no where. There is a lot of shadow which shows that there is something hiding ready to strike. When Sarah has walked into the corridor the color of the whole scene is green. This creates the affect of coldness and harsh. There is a lot of shadows and this makes it uninviting for anyone to see.

Lighting

• In all of the scenes from this clip the color has finally come back to reality all of the green has been washed away. All of the shadows that were everywhere and even on Sarah's face have washed away like we would expect to see in the daylight and in any movie. That inviting feeling is back and everyone and everything is in the room has finally come into view. In the parts that are from earlier in the scene, the signs and the doctors that are now shown at the end of the video were not there. It was a complete view of what is inside of Sarah's head and it gave a clue to the audience that she is not okay and something may have happened to her throughout the film.

Location

• The difference in the screenshots is that they are both the same corridor but the only difference is the color. When Sarah has exited her room and gone wondering looking to see if there is any news about her daughter and husband she notices the change in color. The whole effect makes an chill run down your back and make everything scary and freaky. This is exactly the feeling that the whole movie is trying to create because Sarah is being tortured and when the color finally comes back, all of the reality comes into view hitting Sarah like bricks and then she bursts into tears. The two parts create two different feelings; a scared and unbearable feeling and then a heartbreaking and sad feeling.

Costume

• Sarah’s costume is is stereotype hospital outfit. So as soon at you see her you can automatically tell that she is a patient in the hospital. The gown that Sarah is wearing in the green scene matches the surrounding, it adds onto the whole sense of the darkness and something being around her. The lighting has been changed to make the whole scene look scary. But in the reality part everything is back to normal and the outfit that she is wearing is matching the outfit of the walls. At this point It has not got the scary and eerie feeling anymore that has now been pushed away.

Props

• This is a very significant part in the entire clip because this is the cake that Sarah was going to buy for her daughter and now that her daughter has passed, this is the memory that will forever be an incision in her head. Also the heart monitor shows an important part because when it flat-lines it builds nervousness as to what is going to happen. This is making some of the viewers thing that she may be dead and everything happening after this scene is a dream.

Sound

• In clip 3, the non-diegetic music that is played in the scene is at a steady pace and then when Sarah starts running, the pace starts to increase. As the pace starts to increase the audience comes into realisation that something is going to happen. As a result, Sarah screams and then this eases the feeling that the audience had that was unsettling and resolving the thoughts that they have in their minds at the time.

Mise-en-scene

Sound

• The diegetic sounds that are in clip 4 that the creatures are making are the sounds that get the audience jumping. It gets them in the heart and shocked making them not wanting to continue to watch the movie. The sounds are matching exactly what the movie is about because the outcome of them is to have the audience really scared terrified.