Mise-en-scene: There isn’t much in the room maybe because the room is quite small in size with only one main object in the room, the Barber’s chair. You can see from the far wall there stands a dressing table with a mirror (almost cracked). The other thing that catches your attention is the large window on the far left, with a small window on the opposite wall. Through the large window you can see the roofs of the houses with chimney’s and warm smoke coming out of the chimneys. There are only two humans (a man, Mr Todd & a women, Mrs. Lovett) in the room. They are both dressed in dark colours representing a dark fell to the atmosphere. Mrs. Lovett is wearing a ragged dress (seems like she’s been living in it all her life), while Mr Todd wears layers of clothing (e.g. vest shirt) under his light bluish coat. His hair is a different shade of black and white (like Cruella De Vil in “101 Dalmatians), looking all messy and it looks likes he hasn’t combed it forever. It represents a culture of him that is dark inside (has a secret) and angry on the outside, his hair also expresses his character.
The second scene shows where Mr Todd starts walking down a dark alley holding his two razors in his hands. The men in the alley don’t really notice him there like he’s invisible because Mr Todd is going around threatening everyone about how they deserve to die. When he walks onto the main street there are crowds of people walking wearing dark customs and Mr Todd standing in the middle of the street, no body knowing that he’s there doesn’t seem to notice him. The scene changes of him in front of a church kneeling on the floor asking for revenge and singing that he’s life is ruined. The last scene shows that he’s on the floor kneeling with his razors in his hands and looking in the distance, and Mrs. Lovett looking like she doesn’t really care or that she didn’t hear what he said about revenge.
Cinematography: The lighting in the room is very dark with lots of shades of black, grey and white. You can tell that outside is a cloudy day with the sky gray and there is no blue sky around, with sunlight. From Mr Todd’s clothes he has the same dark look as the room has, blending him with the room colours. When Mrs Lovett walks in the room the colours lighting is the same with her; black and gray, with a little bit of red. There face expresses the white, sick look on both faces, which indicates that the movie is kind of a horror movie with music and dancing. It seems that it’s a really thriller by the colours of everything you see on screen. They are poor by the way they dress and the room image around them seems like there living in an old house. The whole lighting on the scene stays the same because it expresses the trill of the whole movie.
Close-ups, extreme close-ups, wide shots, high shots, middle distance shots are used during this scene. The main shots that are used are the close-ups or the extreme close-ups.
Character: The man’s character (Mr Todd) seems to be hiding a secret in the way he’s acting about how he didn’t get his revenge. His custom explains his personality by his hair is displayed with the colours of his clothes. The clothes colours are in a shade of black, gray, white and a little bit of dull blue on his coat. His hair tells it all; messy, black as in dark side and the white tinge in it. The women’s look his similar too his look, but she’s wearing a dress not a suit. Her dress looks like she’s lived in it the rest of her life with the poor look about them both. The dress looks ragged, old and the top of the dress is a low cut style, showing most of her bare shoulder and chest.
Sound: The beginning of the movies starts out with violin making the effect of a scary feeling or thrilling moment. Suddenly a brass instrument plays a note making the moment serious and important. It seems that the violin keep repeating the same pattern which makes a serious tension of the scene. Mrs Lovett’s voice is more of a high pitched voice, more like a glockenspiel (much is played when she starts singing). When the song becomes more of a song the rest of the orchestral instruments become harmony and melody (following on with the lyrics). Most times in the verses he breaks down into song, such as he says his lines in an angry tone but then the music slows down for the singing to be clear and or musical. The song is about how he wants revenge for what had happened to him and his family. The song also explains the way to get revenge isn’t just about taking revenge on the Judge, but killing all his customers.
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