Mise-en-scene:

Kiss of the Dragon:

The mise-en-scene of this shot clearly shows that the movie is an action movie as all of the men are fighting with Jet Li, there is a martial arts practising mat connoting the fact that these men are training to fight others and harm others. All of the actors in the shots are holding batons and are beating one another with  a baton which connotes that there is a lot of discipline involved in the training of the men in there martial art uniform. The fact that all the men being beaten up in the martial arts uniform shows their unimportance to the scene and that Jet Li is the most important individual in the shot as he is in a black outfit.

The long shot shows the audience the violence as we see that one man is knocked out on the floor and the other men are clearly about to be knocked out. The lighting of the shot is focussed upon Jet Li mostly as he is the protagonist of the movie and to show him in the form of Propp's theory of a hero.

Three extracts:

The Wedding Planner:

There are typical codes and conventions of a Romantic Chick Flick as there dolls and a doll house in the opening of this movie; connoting the fact that the girl is very romantic character and she seems to take an interest in the theme of marriage. Here we see 'The Wedding Planner' as a little girl controlling the dolls 'marriage' which shows us that the protagonist is going to be a perfectionist.


Billy Madison:



The scene is set in a typical elementary classroom as there are tables, chairs and students; but Adam Sandler does not fit into the stereotypical setting of a classroom as he is too old to be an elementary student and he questions what they learn showing the protagonist's immaturity but when he says 'Jackpot!' as soon as the teacher walks in there is a change in the innocence of the setting to being sexual, through the use the teacher entering the room. This follows the typical codes and conventions of a comedy as the representation of the classroom is altered.

Good Burger:



The opening of this extract is futuristic