Gladiator

Gladiator. (unfinished)

Mise en scene and Sound.

Gladiator starts with a man brushing his hand through a field of wheat and the music starts off as loud but relaxing, the lighting is very bright and there is quite a few colours in the first shot and that implies happiness as the colours are bright. This could also suggest heaven with the lightness.

The next shot turns to dark and dull, and this suggests that something bad is going to happen as it changed from light to dull, this also suggests hell because of the darkness. The sound and music gets louder and more exciting when it turns dull.

You can then see a lot of men and horses charging, preparing for something and the music gets even more exciting, the setting is in a field and a forest but the field looks burnt and there are no trees or grass, just burnt floor and this implies that a battle happened there before at the same location. You can also hear all of their armour clashing and banging against each other and this suggests that they have to be protected for something.

The leader of the troops is walking through, and you can tell he is the leader as he is wearing fur and no one else is, all of his troops are just wearing armour and the leader is wearing the fur, you can also tell he is the leader as everybody bows down to him when he walks past and when he is on his horse everybody raises from the ground and stands up to tell everyone that they listen to him.

When the battle starts you can see the Barbarians have no armour on except for shields and this implies that they think they don't need it or they are unprepared for the battle as the Romans have more weapons than the barbarians and have all the armour.

The non-diegetic sounds are getting louder and so are the diegetic sounds, the screaming and roaring is getting louder as the battle begins, these sounds build up suspense and drags you into the film as if you were actually in the battle.

The romans start to throw fire and the barbarians are charging towards the romans with shields and swords, they are roaring and you can hear