Research - Analysis of High School Micro Features (Blog Task 15)

Analysis of '10 Things I Hate About You' Camerawork, Sound, Editing and Mise-en-scene 

'10 Things I Hate About You' is a high school teen drama film. 

The title sequence of ’10 Things I hate about you’ starts of with an establishing shot. This shows that the film is quite high budget as it can afford the facilities and equipment to support shots like this. The establishing shot is an overview a city, which shows a bright day indicating the happy, uplifting atmosphere.

 

Overview of city  

A mid-shot is used to show a group of urban teenage girls in a car dancing along to the diegetic sound of music coming from their car. There is high lighting on them, which implies their happy mood. This a juxtaposed by a mid-shot of another girl in a different car where she is in low lighting due to her being in the shade which shows her very miserable mood. Also, the music played in the girl’s car is cut off by the diegetic sound, which is more rock music, which is being played in the car of the second girl.

group of girls in the car

There is a long shot to show the setting of a high school, which indicates that the film will be based around teenage situations.  There is a close up of the ‘Guidance Counsellor’ title placed on the desk that is complemented by Foley sound of typing, which indicated that this scene is based in an office.  Shot reverse shot is used to show the conversation between the guidance counsellor and the new student, this shot focuses on the dialogue shared between them both.

Long shot of high school

A pan is used to show one of the students showing all the high school social groups to the new student. This gives the audience an insight to what it’s like in the high school. There is non-diegetic sound of drums playing in the background steadily, which shows that this scene will lead to information that will interrupt the flow of the scene.

Student showing new student around

Throughout the scene continuity editing is used and ellipsis that condenses the time period of the scene. The new student seems to get most of the screen time which shows that he is potential a protagonist.