Mise-en-Scene - Gravity the Movie Analysis

Mise-en-scene – Gravity

Gravity is a movie yet to release on the 4^th October 2013. It stars George Clooney and Sandra Bullock. The movie is a Sci-Fi drama where a medical engineer and astronaut work together to survive outer space after an incident has taken place on their space station.

The character shown on the main poster is in a space suit which suggests it’s a sci-fi movie. From the space suit we can gather that this person is most likely to be very intelligence and knowledgeable. Due to the fact that they’re in space. Also we can say that this individual is brave as there are many precautions and dangers to travel to space. This links with the poster it’s self as we can tell this character is in danger. As they’re not in a space station or around people they’re just floating in space.

The lighting is targeted mainly towards the middle. This shows earth and the character. Including wires and a small fraction of the space station towards the corner on the right. The lighting represents that earth is the only way for the character to proceed. Furthermore, the lighting on earth suggests that earth is this character only hope to survive. However, our character is being pulled back into the darkness of outer space. In addition, the left hand side of the poster is darker. This implies that more you go into the dark the less chance you have of survival.

                                                     

The lighting and the colours match. The colour scheme is darker however; there are parts which are light. The darker parts represent the tension of the movie. We can tell this movie generates a lot of tension due to the fact that an astronaut is exposed to outer space with no safety. Furthermore, the astronaut is drifting away from earth.

The setting of this poster is outer space. This suggests this movie is based around the Sci-Fi genre including thriller. We can gather this information by the fact that there is an astronaut drifting away from space. Furthermore, the dark colours in the poster indicate that this movie has a serious tone as dark colours are associated with seriousness. This gives the impression this movie is also of a thriller genre.

The props used in this image are wires and small parts of metal blurred out. The blurred out effect gives us the impression that these small bits are travelling at a rapid speed. This suggests that it’s difficult to have control of your-self in space. In addition, this implies that it would be very chaotic during the movie.