Saving Private Ryan

This is the analysing of "Saving Private Ryan" ignore the film after the first 2 minutes, because i'm analysing up to 2 minutes. For the analysing I'm going to use the technique of MELCS.


M - Mise-en-scene

• C: The characters are all in casual clothing, nothing to make you try and think of anything else, and to get you to focus on what is actually going on.
• L:The lighting is very natural so that it fit's in with the realistic scene, no other effects are needed at this point.
• A: The actors are all average looking people, no need for them to be anything extraordinary, it is all relevant to the scene. 
• M: There is no blatant make up used, except the females do where casual make up as thye would in real life.
• P: The only prop is the camera one of the actors uses, and i suppose the grave stones could me argued they are also props.
• S: The setting is not particularly known until the end where they start to walk into the grave site, and becomes clear that it is some type of war memorial.

E - Editing

• The editing involves no special effects of any sort, just plain invisible cuts. This is used because having any special cuts or effects would be inappropriate for this scene, and would make it look all wrong.

L - Lighting

• I touched on lighting in mise-en-scene, there is no lighting effects, for the same reason as the no special cuts or effects, it's not needed in this particular scene.

C - Camera

• Camera techniques used in the scene include: Tracking, Pivot, Close up's, Medium shot, Long shot, and a slight pan where he is walking behind the line of tree's and comes around to the side of one.

S - Sound

• There is the non-diagetic sound of the war fanfare, and then the diagetic sound which is very quite and subtle, of the wind, walking, and the camera's shutter when one of the actors takes a photo.