Mise en Scene- 'The Last King of Scotland'

In yesterdays lesson, we watched a clip from the movie 'The Last King of Scotland.' The short clip displayed two cleverly used techniques to show Nicholas Garrigans journey and the contrast between to the two places; 

Colour-
 The colour creates the atmosphere in the scene, and helps the viewer to gain an understanding of the setting. In this particular extract of the film colour is used to represent the differences between the two different settings in the film. 

Journey- 
Nicholas Garrigans journey is shown through a montage of videos giving the viewer the impression that they are literally following him on his journey, however in an interview, Michael Carlin stated that the shots were filmed in several different locations. 

Mise En Scene

Mise en scene refers to everything that appears before the camera and how it will be positioned in the shots. This includes props, costumes, settings and other aspects. 

There are issues to do with mise en scene that I may encounter when making my own two minute film introduction; 

• Location- As we are only given a limited time to film our two minute introduction, it wouldn't be ideal nor feasible to choose a location of a certain distance away as it may not be possible to get there and travelling would waste a large amount of time. 
• Props- I would have to ensure that I had appropriate props for the setting of my film (time period and place). Props could cause problems as we would have limited resources (including money), so not only will it be difficult to pay for some props, it may also be difficult to find certain props from certain time periods or places. 
• Actors- Depending on how many actors will be needed to film my introduction, it may be difficult to get enough people to play main characters as well as extras depending on whether people are willing to help out in the process of making our film openings.