Frame Analysis – Batman The Dark Knight PDF

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Frame Analysis – Batman The Dark Knight Charlotte Uddfors MES140 – 0500 Online 16 September 2017

Look at mise en scene  setting  costume

The scene that we are watching is the party scene in the Dark Knight.

The setting of the scene is at a party in a big hotel suite. The costume is a purple suit and tie. His hair is greasy and the ends are tinted green.

 makeup

The Joker’s makeup in the scene is in that specific way where he has painted his face white, his eyes are black, and he has extended his red lips to emphasise his false smile. The Makeup is used to frighten the guests in the first instance but also to hide his true identity.

 props

A prop that is used in this scene is the knife that the joker has. He uses this knife to intimidate the party guests. The prop makes the audience focus on him more by the way that he talks when using the knife.

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acting (expressions gestures etc)

The background actors use specific facial expressions to act scared of the joker and his henchmen when they arrive. There is specific facial expressions between the joker and the old man because the old mans eyes are wide open showing that he is scared of what the joker is going

to do.

 movement within the frame  weather

A specific camera movement is when the camera track batman as he falls of the end of the building the camera tilts downwards.

 Use of space

A specific use of off screen space is where the joker arrives in the lift and is looking out into the party. Another use is where batman turns around and is looking at the joker with a gun to the woman’s head; this adds suspense because the audience doesn’t know what batman is looking at first and why he has stopped.

 Use of light

The room is all lit up and the high key lighting also picks out the Joker’s distinctive makeup and instantly makes him more threatening as the central villain of the film. The color wash is making the scene brighter adding emphasis to the fact that they are in a city.

The whole scene takes place in nighttime and the weather is heavy clouds.

Cinematography

The director uses this scene to illustrate the difference between Batman and the Joker.

Framing: shot choice (ls, ms, cu), angle

A specific camera shot is a tracking mid-shot when the joker is circling the girl and the shot is following him. Specific camera angle is when the camera is over the man’s shoulder looking in the jokers face. A depth of focus is when the camera is following the joker as he enters the foreground of the frame and the background actors are blurred out slightly to add emphasis to the joker and allow the audience to follow what is going on.

Synthesis:

The Joker will fight dirty and do anything in his powers to see Batman suffer and Batman’s response in saving the girl at the expense of capturing the villain marks him as the hero of the film. We also gain an insight in this scene to the suffering that the Joker felt when he was younger and this facet of his behavior is shown with the long panning shot that Nolan uses to highlight how deranged this character actually is thus preparing the audience for further despicable acts later in the film....