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Analysis of Homeland season 1

   - Character Names      - Most tense moments Episode 1- Pilot Disruption- Man is going to get executed and a Carrie tries to save him.  Ten years later Equilibrium- Carrie is getting ready for work and going to work.  Disruption/resolution- An agent is found alive and is coming home after being assumed dead. (Brody) Disruption- Brody's best friend ( Mike) has sex with his wife ( Jessica ) and has been seeing her in the 8 years that he been pressured dead.   Disruption- Brody's daughter ( Dana ) has a boy in her room and is doing drugs.  Disruption- People put cameras in Brody's house to watch him. Resolution/ new equilibrium- Brody meets his family again. They all welcome him home. Disruption- Jessica  takes of Brody's shirt and see's his scars all over his body.  Disruption- Aggressive sex that Jessica didn't like.  Disruption- They have a conference and Brody lies about who h...

Mise-en-scene

Mise-en-scene is the arrangement of everything that appears in the framing, such as actors, lighting, decor, props and costume. It is a french word meaning "putting on stage". When applied to to tv drama, mise-en-scene refers to everything that appears before the camera. The four ways in which Mise-en-sceneis used in TV drama is in body language, colour and lighting, costume and props and setting. Decorations Lighting There are two kinds of lighting, high key lighting and low key lighting. In high key lighting everything appears white with little or no shadow. It is lacking in dramatic effect so it is often used in scenes where they is little tension or to make a situation or character more up lifting. Low key lighting is the opposite of high key lighting. There are lots of shadows giving negative connotations.  It has lots of bright and dark areas in the shot. Costume and props As it is in TV and film a huge variety of props and costumes can be used. Costume is...

Sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5efEpKVmEw Diegetic- Sound everyone can hear including the audience and the characters in the shots. Sound whose source is visible on the screen or whose source is implied to be present by the action of the film Voices of characters  Sounds made by objects in the story Music represented as coming from instruments as coming from instruments in the story space (= source music) Diegetic sound is any sound presented as originated from the film. Diegetic sound can be either on screen or off screen depending on whatever its source is within the frame or outside the frame, Another term for normal sound Non- diegetic- Sound only the audience can hear. Sound whose source is neither visible on the screen nor has been implied to be present in the action: narrators commentary Sound effects which is added for the dramatic effect Mood sound non-diegetic sound is represented as coming from the a source outside story space. Title Musi...