The mise en scene in the TV program Spaced conveys a childish effect through a Batman figurine on a character's keys and an army outfit worn ironically. The dark colors and lighting in the apartment symbolize the characters' troubled lives. Sound effects are used effectively, such as realistic gunshot sounds during pretend finger gun fights that help the audience follow the fast-paced action and maintain the comedic tone. Tense background music also builds suspense during a mugging scene before cutting to a humorous finger gun battle.

1. GONE (mise en scene and sound)
The mise en scene in spaced gives off a childish effect to the programme as there is a close up of the
blonde man’s keys with a little figurine of batman on them, this suggests to the audience that the
people in the flat are childish and dim which is funny for the audience. One of the flat mates is wearing
a full army outfit which us quite ironic as the military is very disciplined and organised, whereas the flat
mate doesn’t seem to be either as he cannot even walk a dog without losing it, this would appeal to
their audience as it is funny that he holds all the values of a solider but in actual fact he doesn’t have
the capabilities of a solider. The colours used in the programme are dark and the lighting in the
apartment is also quite dark to symbolise how their life is at that moment in time. As it seems that
their lives go from bad to worse with all the different scenarios in the programme of how he lost his
car, saw the guy that stole his girlfriend and was approached and mugged by youths twice.
The sounds used in the programme are very good, especially the gun fights with their fingers as it is
funny how realistic and involved they get when they’re fighting. the sound effects of gun shots
whenever they pretend to shoot makes the fight clear what is happening and what guns they’re using
as they could get confused easily as there is a lot of different shots at once and hands are moving very
fast, so the sound effects help to keep the audience on track which with holds the comedic value. The
tense music in the background when the two flat mates are being robbed by youths helps to set the
scene and keep the suspense of wondering what is going to happen next although it is still funny as
they’re making remarks back to the youths. It is also funny because the directors build up to a really
tense part when the female flat mate shouts ‘let them have it’ then it turns to a gun finger fight which
is the opposite of tense mugging.