The descent analysis clip 4 By Anthony Palmer

Lighting

When talking about lighting in a movie like the Descent its very different for the viewer to be used to the lighting because of the movie been mainly placed in a cave. Because the main source of light is flashlights on their helmets, lighters and the camera light.

The first frame is placed no where the place just doesn't exist this frame is of Sarah’s daughter the lighting of this is important as it focuses only on her and makes us remember what happened to her also the darkness behind her represents the cave.

The second picture lighting is very significant because the green shows us the grimness of the accident and the light just shows on her so we know the state what she is in.

The one of Sarah running though the corridor simply shows us the small spaces of the cave and the darkness shows it too

The one of her and her friend crying is a very vital scene because the lighting is really bright and the darkness has now gone it makes us know that Sarah is now safe

Location

The location plays a big part in this clip as its based in one place which is the hospital, the descent made this scene very good.

The first picture confuses the viewer and makes them wonder where the girl is and in some sense it could lead to a theory where Sarah could end up soon. The second one easily tells up that she's in hospital and we know she's very hurt, And the location what she's in tells us that something bad has happened.

Lastly is the corridor scene which tells up that the darkness is looming over Sarah and makes us feel like we are in a cave too because the location of a hospital can convoy the feeling of a cave easily

Props

Props play a good part in this film to help the viewer understand little things what are happening or what have happened in the past. For example like the first photo this shows us that Sarah is not dreaming or anything she is actually alive those little things tell the viewer what is going on

Lastly the last photo of the cake how it says happy birthday Jessica is just showing us a simple overview of her birthday

Costume

The costumes in the descent aren't really detailed, however in the scene where the daughter died she was wearing different clothes in the car than In the cake scene so this can tell us that her daughter is definitely dead maybe appearing as a ghost.

The scene where Sarah is in the hospital dress just tells up that after the crash she has survived but she's badly hurt and she looks clueless about where she is and possibly thinking is she dead or not.

Mise-en-scene

Mise-en-scene gives us the feeling that anything can happen at anytime meaning someone getting killed, and even good happening. Mise-en-scene can convoy a lot of different feelings like fear at on point and then safety many directors use this to tell the viewers minor things what have happened about the charterer's involved for example we feel fear when Sarah is running down the corridor with the darkness however when its light and she's hugging her friend it shows us that’s she safe

Diegetic and non diegetic sound: non diegetic sound plays a major part in the decent as the random echo’s in the background strike fear in the viewers indicating something's their in addition diegetic strikes fear to as music is vital in horrors because by the music we know when something's coming and if something bad is going to happen