Mise-en-scene school's essence

The concept which we tried to capture was the standardisation to which the students are subject to: the uniformity in which everyone is turned (tried to turn) into certain model student (through imposal of uniform, haircut, behaviour, etc.). This school conformity is the essence we tried to evoke in this shot, by aligning the characters in two symmetrical rows and dressing everybody equally, conveying a sense of discipline and order which. Being a fairly long-shot with straight angle, there was space for the spacial deepness to be noticed and the sun to hit in only one of the sides of the character's faces, in order to enforce/maximise this equality, this constant conformist view of creating repeated stereotypes.

The essence of St. Georges that we want to convey was the standarization of the school, the authority that St. Georges can demostrate to us and try to give an example to the surroundings and to others. The uniformity that students have, the conformity  with the school that student show to us through the image. The picture is a long shot, straight-angle-shot, direct lighting and grey-white colors.

Explain in one paragraph the mood and feelings the shot evokes by considering ALL the elements...

...talked in class.

This shot from ‘The Last Emperor’ movie manages  to convey a sense of majesty and power, of an exotic culture, but also hints at an end to this way of life. It does this by, for example, the costumes of the people (the characters; followers or soldiers), which are placed in perfect lines, provocating to the photo the feelings and emotions of a really very organized spatial relation where a special/ancient time atmosphere creates more sense of order. Symmetry takes presence. Also, about the colours at the image, it’s showned that they’re all dark due to the dull lightning. Yellowish, reddish and blackish are the ones used. The fact that the showing of the set (or setting; the grey sky background, stairs, floor, temple) is demonstrated by a far away type of angle (this kind of thing is defined as a simply “long shot”) from the place with its objects, makes the photograph ambient more cold, respectful, grand, dominated, royal, causing the audience to get a weak mood. All these visual effects mentioned before, produce the mis-en-scene (what’s put inside the film).