My extract is "The Suicide Bomber" from the film "The Hurt Locker"
In the extract I've picked Mise-En-Scene was used really well because the film is about the war in Iraq but it was filmed in Jordan and they managed to turn Jordan into Iraq just by making the buildings and the sourounding look like it's actually Iraq.
They also used really good costumes in it because the soldiers in the film look exactly like American soldiers which makes the whole film really realistic and believable, the citizens in the film look like the citizens of Iraq by the way they dress and look like.
Make-up was used really well in the extract because they managed to get some scars on the soldiers and also on the suicide bomber, and it made the whole scene realistic.
The way they used the camera how they focused in and out on the suicide bomber and when the soldier said they can't help him the camera suddenly got away from the bomber just like the soldiers so it made the audience feel like they're part of the scene.
Chris, a very good choice of extract to carry out an initial analysis of miss-en-scene. You cover the keys points of the concept, but you need to work on how 'analytical' your language is. Never use the word 'stuff' in an analysis: it is too vague. You also need to be careful with calling aspects of the 'miss-en-scene' "good". This is opinion not really evidenced with detailed analysis. Use the term 'effective' in its place, and then analyse why you feel it is 'effective'.
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