innovative use of mise en scene-

Throughout the film the mise en scene is very strange, instead of regular set designs with real looking houses/surroundings the set design is very exaggerated and distorted, this is innovative as it tried to make not only the characters get a message off to the viewer but the set itself too.

However making a realistic looking set at this time would’ve been challenging for the production team so this was a more innovative way to get around the problem of creating a set, in a way that makes it easier for the production team and benefits the audience.

innovative use of cinematography-

Cinematography at this time was quite limited as they did not have a camera that could be used in a mobile fashion. The camera had to stay still while recording which put restraints of shots they could achieve, so this high angle shot would’ve been very innovative for the time.

innovative uses of editing-

As film at this time was still physical, editing was very very limited, however the wasn’t absolutely none. For starters as it was a silent film the text cards had to be added in, giving speech from characters or information about the film so far.

Secondly, they where able to use a type of fade effect. Where the iris of the camera would close slowly or open slowly to have the look that it was fading into or out of black around a character or object.

However the iris of the camera could not completely close but instead would close to a very small opening, so to get a complete fade out they would drop a small piece of material to cover the final opening giving the view of a fade out.

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