Mise En Scene Attack The block
In this essay I am going to write about the film “Attack The Block” and look at how mise en scene is used to establish the film’s themes.
In the opening scene when Sam was on her own walking down the dark streets of London the music was quite eerie, this gives the audience a sense of suspense as to “what’s going to happen next?” Then as the music continues to play in the background there are lots of children running with fireworks in their hands, however, it is dark so we can’t see their faces, this automatically gives us a sense of pity for the character as she is on her own and the sounds in the background clearly hint that she will be in trouble as the music remained eerie with the often sudden bang of the fireworks which builds the sense of foreboding.
In the first scene we were positioned to grow an instant dislike to Moses and his friends, this was mainly because the way they were presented in front of the camera. For example, it was dark and they were all wearing hoodies and had bandanas to cover their faces, this instantly hints trouble. Then they went on to steal from an innocent woman (Sam) and the way the camera was positioned on this scene was to show how helpless she was, as the camera looked down on her, this automatically gives the audience a perspective that she has less power than Moses and his friends.
Then Moses and his gang go on to use a lot of slang in their sociolect to conversate with everyone throughout the film, this is done to show that they are not from a wealthy background and are in fact the lower class in society, this is also shown by the area they are in, for example they live in a run down estate.
Class is also shown by their costume, as Moses and his gang all wear tracksuits, baseball hats and bobble hats. Furthermore class is also shown by who the gang associate themselves with, for example, when the gang went to Ron’s flat the gang spoke to everyone apart from Brewis, this was mainly because of the huge class
In the opening scene when Sam was on her own walking down the dark streets of London the music was quite eerie, this gives the audience a sense of suspense as to “what’s going to happen next?” Then as the music continues to play in the background there are lots of children running with fireworks in their hands, however, it is dark so we can’t see their faces, this automatically gives us a sense of pity for the character as she is on her own and the sounds in the background clearly hint that she will be in trouble as the music remained eerie with the often sudden bang of the fireworks which builds the sense of foreboding.
In the first scene we were positioned to grow an instant dislike to Moses and his friends, this was mainly because the way they were presented in front of the camera. For example, it was dark and they were all wearing hoodies and had bandanas to cover their faces, this instantly hints trouble. Then they went on to steal from an innocent woman (Sam) and the way the camera was positioned on this scene was to show how helpless she was, as the camera looked down on her, this automatically gives the audience a perspective that she has less power than Moses and his friends.
Then Moses and his gang go on to use a lot of slang in their sociolect to conversate with everyone throughout the film, this is done to show that they are not from a wealthy background and are in fact the lower class in society, this is also shown by the area they are in, for example they live in a run down estate.
Class is also shown by their costume, as Moses and his gang all wear tracksuits, baseball hats and bobble hats. Furthermore class is also shown by who the gang associate themselves with, for example, when the gang went to Ron’s flat the gang spoke to everyone apart from Brewis, this was mainly because of the huge class