Film Viewing Practice Essay (Agent Carter)

 

The short Agent Carter clip begins with a voice-over that is quicky turned into a conversation between a man and a woman. In the conversation, you can hear that the people are in trouble, with their shaky voices and nervous behavior. The very next scene that is shown happens in the blink of an eye, which is a shot panning to a close-up of a man in a plane, which then changed to a woman in a room who is panicking because she thinks she will never see the man again. The scene builds up even more after that to introduce the main characters Agent Carter and Steve. The next scene after the control room fades and tells the audience there will be a new scene.

The next scene that gets introduced after the fading transition is set in a business room. The audience can hear and see alarms going off, which is non-diegetic sound. The area where people are supposed to work is scrambled with papers and folders. This lets the audience wonder what happened here. After this scene, there is a jump cut to a man talking on a telephone where there is disorder going on. In the scene, there is a mix of nondiegetic and diegetic sound because you can hear the song playing in the background lightly to change the mood, but the audience can also hear the chaos going on the alarm, and the people talking. These different sounds help change the mood for the audience and led them to think about why all this commotion is going on in the first place and what had happened there. All of these things make a good film when the film is leading the audience to question.

To add on to more mis-en-scene in the clip, the clothing the characters wore showed a lot of their time. Many of the characters were wearing garments and uniforms from World War ll. This helped the audience set that the time was from about the 1940-1950s. Specifically, behind the glass/plastic wall in Agent Carter's office, there was an emblem of a hawk with SSR. The SSR during World War ll was a branch of a top-secret war office.

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