How To Mise En Scene In The Game Plan

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In Disney’s movie, The Game Plan (2007) directed by Andy Fickman introduces characters such as Dwayne Johnson and Madison Pettis as Joe King and Peyton Kelly. Joe King is a rich, famous, playboy, football player who indeed only cares about himself and aims to be the best there can be. He lives in the United States in a luxury apartment with distinct women who enters and leaves his life constantly. Peyton Kelly is a young girl about 8 years old who lived with her mother, and after her mother passed then lived with her aunt. During the first part of the movie, Joe King is not aware that he has a daughter until one day an unpleasant surprise appears at his front door. This takes a whole 360 spin in his life because the unpleasant surprise …show more content…
We get a sense of full lighting as the camera jumps from Joe to Peyton to Monique when each one of them speaks. The noise in the background starts to dim down immediately after Joe mentions that Peyton’s mom is going to come back soon. Non-diegetic sounds and the noise of the fork clacking together appear suddenly after Peyton mentions something that gets Joe uneasy. The sound was a signal that something is about to happen. As Joe starts to think about himself again the camera is giving us an image of Peyton getting sick, but Joe not paying attention because he is full of himself. The non-diegetic music then up rises with Peyton’s coughing and sweating letting viewers know that she is in danger. Between the crowd, when can get a medium close-up of Joe worried sick about his daughter. The music escalates with Joe's speed. The camera follows Joe and Peyton with a dolly shot over a bridge, which then leads to a tracking in shot and ends joe’s running to save his daughter's life with a crane shot. When he arrives at the hospital we are looking a medium close-up shot of Joe’s back as he carries Peyton into the hospital. The camera zooms into a point of view shot when joe enters the hospital and he cries for help. The camera then tracks out giving the focus on Joe and the nurse pushing him away as Peyton is being taken in to be checked. After she has been taken in the scene ends with an extreme long shot of the football team, Joe, Monique, and the agent impatiently waiting on the results of