Movie Analysis of “The Hunt for the Wilderpeople”

Movie Analysis of “The Hunt for the Wilderpeople”

With 400-700 words of analysis, explore the mise-en-scene of “The Hunt for the Wilderpeople.” How exactly does the film’s mise-en-scene (visually) reveal character and shape your feelings? How exactly do visual elements establish time and space of story?

To do this paper, you must watch the movie “The Hunt for the Wilderpeople.” This assignment is not a summery of the movie. Instead, you must write about the movie’s mise-en-scene

You must answer these three questions:

How does the movie’s mise-en-scene visually reveal character, shape your feelings, and establish time and space of the story?

Do not discuss sound.

Here are some key terms from the professor that should be used in the paper:

1. Mise-en-scene: a film’s visual information (“placement in a scene”)

2. Setting: the creation of space
3. Set: controlled environment
4. Location: existing space
5. Prop: object with function in ongoing action

3. Color: variable meaning (cultural associations)

4. Costume, Hair, Makeup: Humans as mise-en-scene

5. Lighting: shaping (creating) the space
6. quality, direction, source and color of light
7. 3 point lighting system: key, fill and back lights
8. high key lighting: low ratio between key and fill
9. low key lighting: high ratio between key and fill