Mise en-scene (the cave scene) - cave, horror, climbing, props, costume, location, sound, lighting

1. Mise-en-scene (the cave)
Whitney Nyamayaro

2. Lighting
This is the first shot from a clip in
the movie The Descent. The POV
is where they girls are finally
going down the cave they have a
minimal amount of light and the
only light that they have, is
coming from the helmet, this is
where they are going down to
find clues of how they are going
to get out the cave.

3. Location
These are shots of where the girls are
shooting the scene themselves using
the camera that they brought down
to the cave to document their
finding. The color of the scene has
changed to a blue to make the
audience look at the environment
and the temperature that they are in.
This makes the audience understand
the situation more thinking about the
location. Basically means that they
are seeing what the actresses see.

4. Costume
This is a wide shot of all the
girls as they are trying to
find out where the crawler
that was just behind them
has gone. This is a shot of
all of the girls. The color of
the scene is very dull but
you can briefly see the
clothing of the girls. Which
is typical climbing clothes
and this makes the athletic
individuals more interested
at this point.

5. Props
This is a close up of Juno’s
reaction when she first notices
the drawings on the wall and
then the lights around her have
switched off. The prop that is
used in this scene is the lighter
that Juno used look at the
drawings in the wall. This gives
the girls a clue that there is a
way out of the cave. This is the
mot significant part of the entire
scene because a clue unravels to
all of the girls.

6. Sound
• In clip 1, the non-diegetic music that is played in
the scene is at a steady pace and this changes
slightly as Juno is using the light to see what is
shown on the wall. As the pace starts to increase
the audience comes into realization that
something is going to happen. As a result, Juno is
nervous of what is written on the wall and the
audience had that was unsettling and resolving
the thoughts that they have in their minds at the
time. They are left wondering what are the girls
going to do next and when will something pop
out of somewhere randomly.

7. Sound
• The diegetic sounds that are in clip 1 the
sound of the girls climbing. It gets them
viewers in the heart and shocked leaving them
anticipating what is going to happen next. The
sounds are matching exactly what the movie is
about because the outcome of them is to have
the audience thinking about what they have
just seen and what they want to see next.