How does mise en scene communicate time, place and emotion in life on mars?

This is a work piece on how life on mas uses mise en scene to communicate time.

In life on mars, on the first extract there is a lot of emotions happening example of what police looked like , they look like they know what they are doing and the time they are in which shows that they are from the time they should be, no one from a different time. There body language shows that they are confidence in there jobs, no confusion happening. There are cold expressions on the police and they just look smooth and straight, there is not a lot of thinking time when the camera shots the character. In extract two Sam which is the police from the 20^th Century look confused, shocked, thinking a lot which shows that he does not know where he is and its just weird for the characters because being at a different time all of a sudden. These all tell the audience that the character are not in the right place and at the right time, its more like they do not know their self’s. In extract two Sam is agitated and is looking around, you will not look around if you know the place you live in example like in extract one, Sam know where he’s going and did not look surprised because he does not know where he is but in extract two he is surprised.

On life on mars the camera plays a big part, as I realised that in the first extract the camera takes its time when showing a place on the city, office and houses is and when is it in the 1970’s the camera shows the changes and the audience instantly know that the scene is not in the 20 Century any more but in a different time. At the end of the extract one there was a shot of the I-pod playing a song and it showed the highway ,car and the suit Sam was wearing as well, but when the time changed to 1970’s the first thing the audience saw was Sam in the old Elvis cloths which was poplar in the 60’s and 70’s. when you see this part of the soup you notice that the time has changed and the nice black suit is gone. Then the camera shot the car that Sam was using which was a jeep has changed into an old car. Inside the car was an tape which was an I-pod, the tape was in the 70‘s and had ended in the 90‘s. So to communicate the different with the time , the camera shot all the things that are going to change after the car accident.

The music that plays in the first extract, life on mars plays from the I-pod but then in extract two the same music plays but in a different time and in a different stationary , the music shows that Sam the character is in the same place he was but not in the same time but in the 70’s.

In extract one it takes its time to change a cut when showing things that is going to change in the extract two. In extract one , the police offices was all modern with the new computers, mobile phones and coffee machines but when the time changes all that is gone in the office, the places of the table have changed, the decoration has changed. The scene in the 19 Century was in the same office but looks yellow, books on the floors, too mess to even stay in. In the 20 Century version there was no papers , no books on the floor, its was more heather place to stay and it was tied. In the 19 Century version there was no computers, no mobile phone and there was no coffer machines in the police office there was no space to even sit down. There was no serious on any cases just drinking coffee and smoking. The smoking shows that extract two is in the part because now people know what smoking can do and its band from public places but in 70’s people did not know what smoking can do to you and it was not band (it was normal to smoke, if you did not you were not a men). In 20 Century space is an important thing to people , now people just do there work on the computer and save it and there is no us of paper but in 19 Century people did not care if there is carbon dioxide because they did not know that it can do to the earth and they did not care if trees are getting less, they did not have responsible that we have in the 20^th Century.