We decided to use Silvermere golf course as our final location for the Mad Hatters Scene
The mise-en-scene works well for our Alice In Wonderland scene due to the woodland foreground and mystical features eg. clock hammered into the tree. Roland Barthes distinguish the difference between connotation and denotation he quotes 'denotation is not the first meaning, but pretends to be so; under this illusion, it is ultimately no more than the last of the connotations (the one which seems both to establish and close the reading), the superior myth by which the text pretends to return to the nature of language, to language as nature' (Barthes 1974, 9). In our scene we decided to use the woodlands because it connotes madness. In Midsummer nights dream the characters are referred to being 'we are mad within this wood'. in our scene, to a certain extent, we are trying to recreate this atmosphere of madness which contrasts the reality and normality of the 'real world'. the mis-en-scene helps portray this madness through the woodland trees, the small carved wooden statues, and the hammered clock on the tree
Aim to explain why this mise-en-scene works well for your Mad Hatter's scene. Be more analytical about visual codes. Refer to theoretical frameworks at this stage and your summer exam answers will be easier to tackle.
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