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Up To This Pointe written by Jennifer Longo, takes place in a roaring city called San Francisco. Harper Scott, the main character, is a professional ballet dancer. She dances with her best friend Kate at Madame’s Ballet Studio. The Plan, carefully put together by Harper and Kate goes awry. Harper constantly thought she would become a professional ballet dancer with Kate and that would be her life. Harper was not prepared when The Plan only works out for Kate. Harper has to think of a new Plan…

What do you think of when you hear the word ballerina? I know that I think of young women and girls that dance on their tippy toes. There special shoes that allow them to be able to do this are called a pointe shoe, and can be made for just one specific dancer. It’s not all graceful and effortless movements. If you are not trained for these shoes you can really get hurt. Today I will tell you the five major parts of them that all work together to make sure that the dancer does not get hurt. At…

Tarsem Singh, in his movie The Fall, shows exceptional usage of visual story telling, or mise-en-scène. Characters and themes are introduced within the first two minutes of the film without any usage of dialogue. These beginning moments, while upon first viewing, are not so easy to make sense of, but subtly hold foreshadowing for the future events of the film. The opening scene of the film starts with a series of people yelling and panicking in black and white. The black and white filter alone…

During the course of my EN 111 class there have been many things that I enjoyed and a couple of things that I did not. First of all I particularly enjoyed the discussions that the class would have about the stories that we had to read. I liked this because when reading the story on my own sometimes it was hard to understand what was happening. When the class would discuss the stories aloud I was able to get more of an understanding out of it. Finding the deeper meaning was easier when we would…

read two articles that talks about this type of situations that immigrants go through when they arrive in U.S. The two articles that I’m referring to are called, “ Expression of Maya Identity and Culture in Los Angeles,” by Giovanni Batz and “ Alla en Guatemala,” by Lucila D. Ek. Throughout my essay, I’m going to be referring back to the articles to explain the changes that children of immigrants go through and how this is affecting the relationships between the parents and the child. In…

were constructed by the well-known Director Alfred Hitchcock, who of which created a collection of shot compositions that in part studies the film technique of Mise en Scene, which is a significant approach used by many late Directors in order to develop the understanding of a variety of significant ideas. This Convention of Mise-en-scene is frequently featured in films as a way of helping viewers to understand the thought process of the characters. In the cases of these pictures the closely…

The Mise-en-scène within the film is extraordinary and everything is planned out to a tee. To begin with, the setting of the final battle perfectly sets the mood for the fight. Setting is important because it allows the viewer to view "important details" (Corrigan, White, 69) or to even "contrast across difference places" (Corrigan, White, 69) within the film. In the movie, the fight takes place in the second Death Star. An eerily lit maze of corridors and passageways that create an exhilarating…

with a hostage which is Sylvia Weiss. In this interrogation scene, the power of a system and ignorant society was shown with a high angle, low angle and wide shot for cinematography, costume for mise-en-scene and facial expression. In the interrogation scene, Niccol uses cinematography as well as mise-en-scene to show that the power of the system is more powerful than justice. Niccol uses high angle shot and low…

MISE EN SCENE The arrangements of all the elements, whether it’s the actor, the lighting, decoration, props or anything which has to come in the frame and which is shown in the frame is known as mise en scene, a French word meaning placing on stage. One of the scenes, which represent mise en scene in a good manner, is the last scene of The 39 Steps, As Robert, Carroll, and the police gather backstage around the dying Mr. Memory, on-stage behind them visible from the stage wing we see performance…

the species of humans. In the Matrix the bodies heat of the human species and their electrical locomotion are used as energy source. The film matrix then takes into consideration the use of mise-en-scene for it to guide the audience’s attention to a specific focal point. Hence, as stated above mise-en-scene…