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".