Goodfellas

This is the opening scene of the 1990's film goodfellas, again only take notice of the first 2 minutes. For analysing this I will be using MELCS again.


M - mise-en-scene

• C - costume-There is no real set costumes, but they are all dressed in smart clothing to show their welth and importance
• L - lighting -There is only natural lighting but because of it being night time, it appears low key, showing the characters being quite suspicious. 
• A - actors - The actors physical appearance is set perfectly with the film, the suits, expensive cars, well groomed, these are all connotations of a gangster. 
• M - make up -There is not any make up to make the actors appear better looking but there is the make up of the hostage in the boot of the car, with the blood to make it appear more realistic.
• P - props - Props in this scene would include, the gun, the knife, and the car.
• S -setting -The setting is at night on a very lonely road giving the sense that these people are purposely not near people, and them being in the car at this time of night gives the sense of them being quite suspicious characters.

E - editing

• There are no real editing effects in this scene, purely because it is not needed, there are only invisible cuts to show the transitions between different parts of the scene smoothly.

L - lighting

• I already touched on lighting earlier but there is only natural lighting in this scene but because of the time (night) it appears very low key.

C - camera

• There are a variety of camera shots in this scene, ranging from close ups, the long shots. The close ups are when they hostage is in the boot and the long shots are when you see the 3 gangsters standing outside the car.

S -sound

• There is no non-diagetic sounds really, but the diagetic sounds of the car and the knocking in the boot are the only real sounds heard apart from the actors talking.