Mise-En-Scene Analysis Of Juno By Jason Reitman
I will be analyzing a 10 minute clip off the film called Juno that was released in 2007 directed by Jason Reitman. This analysis will cover mise-en-scene, colouring, costume and performance.
The film begins with a long-shot of Juno standing outside of a house with a chair in front of her introducing the surroundings to the viewers. It then showed us a wide angle shot focusing Juno and a chair. The beginning part makes the audience confused to why a chair was outside and why she was focus with the chair. Seeing her standing away from the house makes us think that she is hesitant to the person who lives there because she is looking in that direction, and with the chair in front of her gives us hint that the chair has some story behind it. Shortly after she was drinking a sunny d orange juice in a long distance shot. The way she drinks is informing us that she is an informal person. At first the mise-en-scene has a colour of browns until we see reds on her clothing’s and lips which could symbolize in romance. We then directed to a close up to her “wondering” expression, and the narrative speaks, “It started with a chair,” in this instance viewers will …show more content…
immediate informed that it will begin to tell us her story significance of the chair. The music start as it starts to tell us the story, with the romantic tone following the scene as it tells us her story, and then there was a sound of a dog barking interrupting the story of Juno’s flashback, bringing us back to her reality.
The beginning clip starts off with a live action and turns into an animated hand-drawn style of the main character Juno MacGuff walking through her neighborhood to the convenience store with a sunny d drink. I think this is trying to tell us that she is the main character off the film. Looking at the street she is walking through gives the impression that she lives in a small town because we can see cars, houses and small shops. We can also see objects around her such as guitar and a T.V laying around street, which makes me think of a small town. We can also see that they have used a child-like fonts that are used for the crediting and texts, and with the music playing at the background give us an idea of Juno’s lifestyle. We can see that the environment has been simplified and the background is pastel with Juno wearing red creating an interesting contrast; this allow us to keep our attention to the character. Juno wears a jeans, a sweater shirt and a converse shoes which indicates that she is not girly.
As she walks through the neighborhood the music started off quietly and starts to get louder and louder, the music continues as she walks through the neighborhood until she got to her destination.
The song that was used for the opening scene is called ‘All I Want Is You’ by Barry Louis Polisar. The music style is telling us the genre and the atmosphere of the film, and the beat of the music is giving us clues the type of person Juno is, it also reflects the theme of the film. The music also tricks the audience believing Juno is going somewhere fun or to meet a friend and is unaware that she is going to the convenience store for a pregnancy test. As she arrives at the store we can hear the music faded away this makes us feel that things are began to become serious which makes us wondering what is going to happen
next.
In the shop there are colours of red and yellow which creates a seriousness atmosphere. This scene creates quite a contrast with the animated opening as this is becoming a serious problem. As she went in to the bathroom for a pregnancy test we can see allot of yellow, and with a music starts playing at the background making the situation becoming more serious, I think it is trying to make us know the importance of what she is doing. When she walks out from the store we see a mid-shot where she holding the pregnancy test on one hand and a packed of rope on the other this made us wonder what she want the rope for. It also makes us feel concern what she want to do because he pregnancy test showed a positive sign, and with her not so happy expression made us feel a slight of worries.
Later on it angled behind her where she wears her hood up with a music playing at the background along with a dark bluish colour scene which creates a mood of depression. When she carries a rope to the tree she pretends to hang herself making us feel sympathy that she could be having a dark thoughts and depression.
Following on to the scene where we see were introduced to her bedroom have told us more information what kind of lifestyle and what kind of person she is. We see a quite an untidy arrangement which implies us that she is not girly.
The film begins with a long-shot of Juno standing outside of a house with a chair in front of her introducing the surroundings to the viewers. It then showed us a wide angle shot focusing Juno and a chair. The beginning part makes the audience confused to why a chair was outside and why she was focus with the chair. Seeing her standing away from the house makes us think that she is hesitant to the person who lives there because she is looking in that direction, and with the chair in front of her gives us hint that the chair has some story behind it. Shortly after she was drinking a sunny d orange juice in a long distance shot. The way she drinks is informing us that she is an informal person. At first the mise-en-scene has a colour of browns until we see reds on her clothing’s and lips which could symbolize in romance. We then directed to a close up to her “wondering” expression, and the narrative speaks, “It started with a chair,” in this instance viewers will …show more content…
immediate informed that it will begin to tell us her story significance of the chair. The music start as it starts to tell us the story, with the romantic tone following the scene as it tells us her story, and then there was a sound of a dog barking interrupting the story of Juno’s flashback, bringing us back to her reality.
The beginning clip starts off with a live action and turns into an animated hand-drawn style of the main character Juno MacGuff walking through her neighborhood to the convenience store with a sunny d drink. I think this is trying to tell us that she is the main character off the film. Looking at the street she is walking through gives the impression that she lives in a small town because we can see cars, houses and small shops. We can also see objects around her such as guitar and a T.V laying around street, which makes me think of a small town. We can also see that they have used a child-like fonts that are used for the crediting and texts, and with the music playing at the background give us an idea of Juno’s lifestyle. We can see that the environment has been simplified and the background is pastel with Juno wearing red creating an interesting contrast; this allow us to keep our attention to the character. Juno wears a jeans, a sweater shirt and a converse shoes which indicates that she is not girly.
As she walks through the neighborhood the music started off quietly and starts to get louder and louder, the music continues as she walks through the neighborhood until she got to her destination.
The song that was used for the opening scene is called ‘All I Want Is You’ by Barry Louis Polisar. The music style is telling us the genre and the atmosphere of the film, and the beat of the music is giving us clues the type of person Juno is, it also reflects the theme of the film. The music also tricks the audience believing Juno is going somewhere fun or to meet a friend and is unaware that she is going to the convenience store for a pregnancy test. As she arrives at the store we can hear the music faded away this makes us feel that things are began to become serious which makes us wondering what is going to happen
next.
In the shop there are colours of red and yellow which creates a seriousness atmosphere. This scene creates quite a contrast with the animated opening as this is becoming a serious problem. As she went in to the bathroom for a pregnancy test we can see allot of yellow, and with a music starts playing at the background making the situation becoming more serious, I think it is trying to make us know the importance of what she is doing. When she walks out from the store we see a mid-shot where she holding the pregnancy test on one hand and a packed of rope on the other this made us wonder what she want the rope for. It also makes us feel concern what she want to do because he pregnancy test showed a positive sign, and with her not so happy expression made us feel a slight of worries.
Later on it angled behind her where she wears her hood up with a music playing at the background along with a dark bluish colour scene which creates a mood of depression. When she carries a rope to the tree she pretends to hang herself making us feel sympathy that she could be having a dark thoughts and depression.
Following on to the scene where we see were introduced to her bedroom have told us more information what kind of lifestyle and what kind of person she is. We see a quite an untidy arrangement which implies us that she is not girly.