Gwen Alien Kiss semiotic analysis form 31-1.00

31-1.00 sec


The clip beings with  camera on a medium shot, this was made to tell the audience that the girl with dark hair is the central protagonist. a central protagonist picking up the girl. The camera tilts up as the central protagonist picks the girl up.
As the central protagonist calls out the name of the other girl, the camera cut to a medium close up. This is made to create a sudden action between those two characters. As the two characters kiss the camera jump cuts to a different scene with a different location. We get a long shot of the room filled with compeers and new technology, this was created to tell the audience where are they. We can see three other people, however the camera the focused more on the man with a red shirt on.
We them get a close up of the monitor screen. On that screen we can see our central protagonist kissing the girl. The camera then cit to a medium close up of the man wearing red shirt. The camera pans toward the man as he says down to watch the two girls kissing. From here we can say that this man features Male Gaze as he watches the two girls kiss. The camera them jump cuts to a medium shot of the girls kissing as the central protagonists says "okey..."and calls her an alien. After is creates shot reverse shot which had a close up of the central protagonist taking the control over the alien. The close up was made to show the dominance of the central protagonist.

mise-en-scene:

• Lighting: the lighting is vey dark, this has a connotation of mystery which was made to create narrative enigma. 
• When denoting the lighting  of the second location,  the audience can pick on the lighting changes to a light and at the same time dark with a bit of blue colour. The connotations of blue lighting is future and fantasy.
• Costumes: Our central protagonist is wearing dark clothing which suggests that she is not into fashion and is different from all the other girls. She has dark hair which tells us that she is not an ordinary girl.
• The man where as is with dark hair and waring simple clothing which makes him seem as an outsider because if we use commutation test we can tell that if he was blond he would've been more attractive if he was in a suite he would've been more power position.