The Details of The Minutes of The Hours: How Mise-en-Scene Creates Narrative Connections Iris Wilson College

The Details of the Minutes of The Hours In the film The Hours by Stephen Daldry, the various of elements of the Mise en Scene are used primarily in order to define and maintain the structure of the overall plot. The structure is set up so that there is one overarching plot, then three subplots following three different lead female characters. The mise en scene elements upheld this structure in multiple ways including foreshadowing of emotional character development, parallels that helped establish timeline and connections between the plots following each character. It made clear, the notion that there were three separate ongoing storylines, but that they were all connected by the same central theme and ideas. There were a few elements of mise en scene that helped to define the story structure through the establishment of the timeline in the film.

The first element would be the use of on-screen text, which is used very early on in the film in order to establish what era and area each story is set to be in. Prior to the introduction of each main character, there were shots of the setting and at the bottom of each shot, was the name of the setting and the year. The first one that was introduced was Las Angeles 1951, followed by...