La La Land is a musical romantic drama film released in 2016. The movie is written and directed by Damien Chazelle and starred by Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone as main actors. The film is about an inspiring actress called Mia and Sebastien a musician who is a jazz pianist. The two characters met and fall in love in Los Angeles.
To introduce a character, the director have to use five important elements: the narrative, the cinematography, the mis-en-scene, the editing and the sound.
Here we will introduce Emma Stone as Mia in this film.
First, the cinematography by definition is “the art of photography and camerawork in film-making.” The camera distance in a pan from left to right to arrive to the character. And the movement is horizontally
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First, we can see the setting and props. The scene is filmed in winter in the morning or at noon on the highway of Los Angeles. We can see Mia wearing a white shirt with no make-up and a ponytail. We can remark that she is excited and laughing. We can see the key light that is Mia lightened with. The character was taking on phone while stuck in the traffic in her car rehearsing for an acting scene.
Third, the editing is “the way that individual shots are connected to another one to make a scene” (Johnson). As we mentioned before, the scene was formed of one shot beginning shooting Sebastien till arriving to Mia. It is dissolve shot that we can see the shot of Sebastien forward to Mia. She was shoot in medium shot while we can see the waist-up.
Fourth, the sound “is everything that the audience hear from the audio track of the film” (Johnson). All the sounds used are diegetic sounds. We can hear Mia talking on the phone also the sound of the cars’ horn stuck in traffic called ambient sound that refer to the location: the highway.
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