Mise-en-scene

a) The opening of the movie “The Rear Window” is excellent, it manages to tell the audience a lot about the main character with out using any dialogue. The background during the credits is a still shot of curtains opening which shows the beginning of something. In the case of this movie it shows the beginning of a brand new day. You can observe that the mise-en-scene is full of windows from different apartments and in the back of the shot you can see a small corridor which shows the street. The way in which the director placed or chooses the setting shows an enclosed urban life for everyone who lives there.

b) The camera, in the opening of the movie “The Rear Window” the camera starts moving forward and creates a feeling as if it is going out of the apartment and films the still shot from nearer angles, showing the typical neighbors (ex. A couple that fights all the day). Then the camera shows areas of the still shot at nearer angles. The camera finally, enters back to the apartment showing a sweaty man at a nearer angle which tell us that he is the main character. As the camera came out and then entered the apartment it can be said that the director is trying to show us everything in the point of view of that man.