In the film “The Long Day Closes” the scene of Tammy’s in Love helped demonstrate the film maker’s use of the cinematic elements such as mis en scene, cinematography, editing and sound to help the audience understand the protagonists feelings of loneliness, and being conformed into a routine, as well as having a hard time of being an individual.
The purpose in this film was quite an interesting one. In this particular scene of Tammy’s in Love, the filmmaker was very intricate when it came to the purpose of the films mis en scene. As our settings demonstrated a time in which was not in the current year of 1992. The scene of the Tammy’s in Love, seemed to be very shadowy, and our protagonist Bud, wore dark colors in the particular …show more content…
This was to help entail what Bud’s everyday life is, and shows the routine that connect to his life which was the connectedness of the movie theater, the church and classroom. However, we can tell that our protagonist first happy moments in which he enjoys is the movies, and eventually goes down to what he least likes about which I think was school and the church. I believe the school and church is the reason why he feels is a routine chore, but the movies is his first love. That’s why we were introduced to that in the first dissolved shot. Continuing to analyze the first dissolve when Bud swings off back and forth on the pole, and the scene shifts to the dark movie theater. The reason why I found this to be an interesting use of the dissolve is the filmmaker put this combination of mis en scene there for a purpose. The setting of Bud pole swinging scene was dark and shadowy for a reason, to prepare us for the movie theater scene, in which created an easy dissolve transition for the audience to …show more content…
As the key main people speak which is the priest and the schoolteacher. Show that our filmmaker did this to indicate a sign of not being able to be an individual, in the routine scene of the church and school. The reason why I stated that there isn’t a sense of individuality is in the church there is a leader in which the crowd follows, and in the school there is a teacher in which the students follow. The use of the Tammy love song was quite interesting on how it started because it started to create an impression of a soundtrack running through Buds