Cutting it Mise-en-scene notes

The clothes worn by both characters represent them as middle class. They are dull and blend into the background slightly, this is don to put an emphasis on what they are saying and doing in the scene, it also fits into the quite bland colour pallet of the scene to set the mood. The black cabs show the location relevant to the show. As the woman goes into the hospital she ignores the blue truck to her left, turning round to look at the man, this again puts the emphasis on the realationship of thoose two characters in this scene, hinting at later events showing all the woman cares about is him now. The office in the hospital doesn't look cliche white and clean, but rather a little cluttered and run down, to set the mood for bad news. As she comes out a man in a red jacket serves as a warning, it is also incidentally the 13th bus in the scene whcih goes by as she gets hit. the abulances also hint towards the danger beforehand. Time slows down in the scene and the fairy lights behind the man serve to re-enforce the surreal notion as she gets knocked down. There is a lot of symbolism at the end with flowers scattered on the ground on the side the man is and nothing on the pavement the side the woman lies, this represents her life and their love being smashed apart by the event, also the absence of flowers on the left side show the woman is without life now. The props throughout the scene represent inportant ideas from the narrative. For example the wedding ring represents their feelings and the elephant model on the doctors desk could hint at not being able to put their past behind them and have "a clean slate" as they want to because of the bad news playing on the saying "elephants never forget".

TV Dramas

TV Dramas generally focus on a few major characters and their realationship, useually focusing on dramatic or depressing topics. Dramas are broadcast in several different ways, as One-offs, two parters, Mini series, or serial, or several Series with a set number of episode in each, or as an ongoing soap. They often focus on serious issues.

CSI:Crime Scene Investigation

CSI focuses on the Crime Scene Investigation department in a major city, each episode of it's series focuses on a new case however there are some scenes throughout that show the realationships and lives of the main characters. The show is quite contraversial showing some very dramatic scenes and has gained huge popularity. Many different versions of the show have been made due to this popularity.

Dexter

Dexter follows a fictitious serial killer and shows the realationship between him and the people close to him. Each series focuses on one big event in Dexter's life while gradually creating various realationships with people around him

The show is an adaptation of a series of novels written by Jeff Lindsay.

Band of Brothers

Band of Brothers was a Mini Series directed by Steven Spielberg and based on a true story about a company of soilders in the second world war. Each episode focused mainly on a different character, and some realationships, all the characters being linked through the fact they were in the same company but also each episode showing the realationship between the main character and each soilder.

All these shows conform the the genre conventions of focusing on realationships in a serious, and not comic way, all being about dramatic things, a serial killer, a war and murder cases, all dangerous themes to make the shows exciting for the audience and allowing them to voyeristically enjoy being involved with these exciting scenarios.

Mise-en-scene notes

Skins

In this scene there is a focus on academic mise-en-scene, showing trophies in the background to represent the acheiving nature of the school, and therefore representing the headmistress as acheiving and acomplished, this also sets the scene as her office. Chris wears a fairly normal sports jacket and has scruffy hair and does not hold a direct mode of adress very often, this is contrasted with the head of college who wears a blazer and is very confident with her actions. The Newtons cradel also strongly represents academicness and inteligence. This is well shown as Chris is playing with the cradel at first however the head mistress stops him when telling him he is expelled. Taking away his ability to play in this academic enviroment, much like in the narrative of the scene itself. The computer is used as a prop showing Chris examples of his rebelliosness, in highly exaggerated ways to conform to the shows conventions.


Shameless
1.18-2.15
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEmAd1n7LwU
The Mise en Scene is mostly in acordance with where a scene is set, in this example the majority of the mise-en-scene is items being sold in the shop, the till, the shop workers' uniforms etc. Other mise-en-Scene is characters clothing which varies from character to charcter. there are two men both wearing practical coats in the scene, nothing too expensive representing them as middle or working class. The younger boy in the clip wears fashionable clothing and has a fashionable gold chain around his neck, this is quite common amoung youths in this day and age so represents more middle class than upper. He also wears a blue jacket with stripes to link to whilst contrasting to the shop workers' uniforms (blue with white spots). The women in the clip (2 of which wear work uniforms with make up and hoop earings) are show in realistic clothes with enough make-up and jewellery to show their personalities to an extent. the other woman wears a fancy coat and nice clothes, however her situation (shopping in a corner shop) company (With a not upper class man) and body language (smelling her finger inspecting goods around her-practical attitude not pampered as an upper class person is useually represented hint at her being also middle or working class, however a bit of a snob, almost putting herself above thoose around her with the more extravagent clothing. The older woman is wetting her financial documents, emphasising her situation and character- cheating the insurance company.