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Explore how the mise-en-scene of cinematography, sound and editing create meaning and response in an audience in the ending sequence of "American Beauty".
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FS1 Analysis 2 - Microstudy Explore how the mise-en-scene of cinematography, sound and editing create meaning and response in an audience in the ending sequence of "American Beauty". The sequence I have chosen for my analysis is from "American Beauty". I am going to look at the ending six minutes of the film. The film itself is based around one suburban American family and the events that take place within and around that family, over the course of a year. At the very beginning of the film, the central character, Lester Burnham (played by Kevin Spacey) announced as part of a voice over that he would be dead within a year. Throughout the film, events have taken place that would put any of the films characters in place as his killer. His wife, Caroline (Annette Bening), has become a gun fanatic and had an affair and, since doing so, has been given...
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