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  In the 2013 film “Agent Carter”, directed by Louis D’Esposito, it embraces many diverse camera angles and camera shots. In the first scene, Captain America appears in the shot while operating a plane. The first few seconds is a close up shot of him which then cuts to a close up of the character Peggy Carter. In this shot, there is an example of mise-en-scene as the setting is Peggy sitting alone in a dim room caused by lowkey lighting. The lowkey lighting is used to set a dramatic and emotional tone. The camera then cuts back to Captain America. He is seen putting a picture of Peggy on the dashboard of the plane while there is emotional non-diegetic sound playing. The use of this music impacts the scene as it makes the audience believe that in a couple of seconds, Captain America is going to die from a plane crash. After the scene with Peggy and Captain America, the camera fades to black and text is displayed on the screen that says, “One year later”. The use of this comment was ...

 

  The movie I chose for the mise-en-scene is 2008 movie starring Liam Neeson in Taken. The movie begins with high key lighting footage of Maggie Grace’s character, Kim, as a five-year-old girl celebrating her birthday. Soon after that scene, it cuts to Liam Neeson’s character Bryan Mills as he wakes up alone in his living room from a dream that turns out to be a flashback of his daughter’s birthday. The sudden change from high-key lighting to low-key lighting shows the audience that something sad has happened to Bryan. The dark lighting changes the viewers emotions so that they feel what Bryan is expressing which is depression, exhaustion, and loneliness which is represented by him sitting alone in an empty living room. After the first couple of scenes, Bryan shows up to his daughters’ birthday as she is much older now. The setting changes from a dark and gloomy living room to a bright and sunny outdoor birthday party. This change in setting is used to disregard the past se...