Mise-en-scéne

 

Mise-en-Scéne

Mise-en-Scéne means everything in the shot E.g lighting, costumes, colour, facial expressions and composition.

Low lighting and darkness suggests isolation, the one light source doesn't cover them. Thy sit away from the group of people creating isolation. They move further away, isolating themselves. They run alongside a fence creating a cage. Before she jumped in the water all you hear is music, conversation and laughing. They leave all of the sounds behind. Audience now think something bad is going to happen. The sunset implies that she is running out of time. Calm water and lack of sound suggests that something is going to happen. The audience is brought in close to the action because the camera is at sea level. The sounds underwater are non-diegetic, low sound is bad and the music becomes the sharks theme.