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I decided to comment on the mise-en-scene of one episode of the show Grey's Anatomy. The episode I chose is episode 22 from season 14. I made this decision primarily because I am currently watching Grey's Anatomy, so I wanted to get a better understanding of the setting, lighting, costume, and staging in the show. The show is set in Seattle at a hospital called the Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. While they do visit other places, this is where the majority of the show is filmed. Every episode opens with a landscape shot of Seattle and then focuses on one place. In this episode the first place that is focused on is the Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, but then it cuts to a character driving through corn fields. This show is constantly cutting from one character to another. In the scene of two characters, Joe and Alex, driving through corn fields, the setting is shallow space . The scene has one character looking at the other while driving, but the corn fields behind them appear to ...

This link will take you to the new edited version of 5 Master Edits with Sound  Sound Effects Added Comments:  1) Music: I added music to my example of contrast. In the first scene of the example with the birds sitting on the building, I added calm background music called "a quiet thought". In the second scene of the example I added the music called "wild battle crowd approach" to the clip of Kelly running. Adding background music is a form of non-diegetic sound. Both of these additions of music to the scene allows the audience to have a better understanding of what is really going on in each of the characters minds. 2) Direct Sound: I left the direct sound in my example of leit motif. The sound is what causes the rest of the actions in the scene to happen. The sound helps to connect the two scenes together because they both contain the same sound. Direct sound is also a form of diegetic sound. The sound allows the audience to understand that the people are b...