Mise-En-Scene

    I elected "The Dark Knight" to be the movie I use for mise-en-scene, mainly because Batman movies (at least the good ones) are known for their atmosphere. Any piece of media Batman is in, the atmosphere is far more relevant to the feeling you get when you watch the movie than stuff you see from Marvel. (Not saying that Batman is better than Marvel by the way, because DC sucks hard right now.) Costumes also contribute a lot to superhero movies. Whether it be Jokers outfit or Batman's costume or the getups I am going to describe in the next paragraph, they are huge on mise-en-scene.

The Dark Knight Rises Movie Cover:

Funny enough, the movie cover features low-key lighting.

 

   The movie opens to a cityscape, and slowly zooms in on a window and it shatters, revealing the men in masks in crooked getups (costumes) with the guns they used to do it. This is followed shortly after with a bank robbery where several of the men in these clownlike mask costumes shoot up as if to warn the people inside. This makes me feel like they are plotting something, obviously they are up to no good, this is something more sinister and you can tell.

 

   

     The next scene I am going to talk about involves both deep space and low-key lighting. It turns out that the robbery on the bank that was planned and commanded by the Joker, was done by around 10 people. Of these people, one of them was actually Joker, who was told by another guy that if Joker were here, he would tell me to kill you. Ironically, he was saying this to the Joker which responded, "No, I kill the bus driver." The deep space example takes place now where you are focusing on the bus as it draws closer and crashes through the door to kill the guy. The scene itself also lends itself to low-key lighting. It is because of the deep space that we see a circle of correlation, one that while more than one exists, another is being threatened. The bus driver is threatening the life of the guy with the gun who is threatening the life of the Joker, and the Joker is threatening the life of the bus driver. The low-key lighting shows that while not much light is getting in, it is morning and he is doing this robbery in broad daylight which just shows what he is capable of.

    Last but not least, an example of staging, and more specifically blocking is shown when Joker during the very same heist but later, kills somebody insignificant, and even in the way he kills him it shows that he is insignificant, the shot and the staging reciprocate that. He is quickly and easily killed before moving on to what was important next.

    Joker just shot him without so much as turning around.

    I based my assignment on the first 10 minutes of the film as per the clip from a film observation aspect of the test you mentioned. 

Fin.

    

Except I'm not finished because I still have to insult Noah because he sucks and reeks of obesity. Fun fact: Noah is from Nauru which has an obesity rate of 61% but even in Nauru, Noah is in the top 1%, because he is just that fat. He stopped going on the bus because whenever it turned in the direction that Noah happened to be sitting on the side of on the bus, the damn thing would do a barrel roll and this fat f#$% wouldn't budge an inch. He demanded food as if he were a diabetic low on blood sugar on the verge of dying, to be fair he was, but he wasn't low on blood sugar, as a matter of fact, he constantly hugged the fine line between hypertension, cardiac arrest, and the point in which you are considered clinically dead.