Donnie Darko Blogging Task

Location and Mise en scene
Druing the opening a number of locations is used such as the school hallway, the outside school surrounding area, the school court yard and the classroom. These locations are the typical conventions used in teen movies related with school life. The costumes creates the difference between the student and the teachers as the students wear the typical white shirt to school whereas the teachers tend to dress in dark dull clothing.

The outside school Surrounding area

The school hallway

The school court-yard

The Classrooom

Editing and cameras:

From the start we see a tilted position of the school bus in which the characters come out of. This may be used to show disorientation and also gives the setting a funky look.

  We then get to see a wide shot, showing the school, which shows us the main setting. 

When we get introduced to the charceters, the camera speeds up before slowing down, as we get to see the charcter in mpre depth. This shows us more about the charcter and gives them more screen time as well as expressing to the viewers that they are the main charcters.

This is an example of a three shot, which is a mid close up shot of three the students. We can aslot see the way in which the students act around each other, some look mean etc. Their chracters are designed around the way in which they act, which the camera work and editing strongly conveys.

When we see a new character, the camera does a quick rapid pan, making it look more experimental and also gives a audience eye level view. It's shot at eye level- POV shot.  This shot happens through out the clip, we're like the camera. Slow motion is used several time, to help keep time on focus as well as speeding up. We see speeding up as it is used to condense time, for example:

The background characters are speeded up as the main charcter is on focus, giveing more depth within the main chracter.