The Descent- mise- en- use 2

Zachary Buchanan

LightingIn various movies lighting is one of the most looked and review upon things during a movie by critics and is the one thing that the director can never forget about when filming certain scenes. In these scene in the Descent the lighting has been used to give a certain effect to both the viewers and the characters a sense of claustrophobia where they’re afraid of being isolated within the cave, which is a special effect on movies like the descent can do by having the audience having a similar situation. Trapped within a confined area where you’re required to stay put and their only is one exit the entrance. An example of the lighting in this movie is the first screen shoot, by having the only “light source” coming from above it grasps the audience attention and has them fixated on that one single point of the scene until the cast advances with a new place with a larger range of lighting.

LocationIn the descent there are only a few scenes are where the location isn’t the the cave and that is only at the very start and the very end of the film, so in the film there are various seems that might be considered repetitive, which tires into the fear installed by the director is claustrophobia and isolation which both eludes the cast (characters) into a twirl of despair, wit no sign of hope. Am example of this is both screen shots, they both represent the cave entirely every stage becomes worse and worse and there is way to escape, to back up with my point; each alternate route taken by the remaining members of the crew all ends up into a closer area towards the creepers, even to a part where they fight in the toilet of the creepers and their dining area of both humans and animals.

CostumeWith costumes in the descent in these fames the notable two are of course are the creepers and the main female cast , with the main cast their outfits consist of fear preparing them for various adventurous activities allowing them to explore the surroundings and areas of the cave, and to connect to certain hooks and items laid before by former explores whom are not longer alive inside the cave. Another things I’ve to mention is the creepers costumes, with their costumes done by the make up department they’ve a body type that gives off a slimy vibe with no trace of hair, another thing to mention about the creatures is that they have similar body stance and limbs although they’ve web fingers and toes, which draws the audience to the screen being more invested into their design, which is done correctly because Neil Marshall doesn't have them fully appear till two/thirds of the movie.

PropsIn these frames shown they’re the most notable items available to the main female cast because each of them are important to the story allowing them to advance through certain scenes of the movie with less harm, even to the part where it allows them to discover the creepers; and even eating one of the members of the cast, the new comer holly. All frames shown are great examples of what the descent does to invest items shown prior to the advantage to the “victims”; the lighter allows them to view inside of the cave in short range, the camcorder allows the cast the cats to view everything in night vision with drawing a massive amount of sound for the creepers to find out, finally the flares allows the girls to expanded to range of their sight in the larger scales of the cave.

Mise-en-scene Mise-en-scene - gives the impression that anyone can be killed off or

die at any second and these key things give the viewer a great amount or fear and tension where people can lose them selves in the movie.

Diegetic and Non Diegetic- But with Diegetic it’s the physical and verbal noise coming from the person it is. With non- diegetic it can come from anything and can be anything including narrative and are noises that don’t come from the person who is being filmed.

However with this scene the sound is mostly Non diegetic and it has strong sounds of the water splashing as the crawlers are circling the cast, and minus the main actors the most important diegetic noise is the crawlers and how they are growling and making noises similar to animals. Which also builds up the Mise-en-scene where the atmosphere is so tense with the sound building up to a mass climax and gives the impression where anyone of the characters could be attacked.