Mise-en-scene
From my understanding, I think the mise-en-scene is some tools assisting filming. My example from the Buffy episode is a person went to bathroom and brash her/his teeth, and after that she step into another room, which probably is the bedroom, and the scary sounds came. This is at about 15:00 minutes. Everything in the bedroom is mis-en-scene. For example, the beds, closet, desks, chairs and the girlish decoration and color in the room. The reason I choose this example is because everybody seems like they lost their voice, and they started to panic with the situation. This situation continuants the development of the plot, while causes the audience’s curiosity. Also, the example contributes to the aesthetic of horror because it gives me an imagination of the plot. I would imagine that if something scary hiding in the room anywhere.
Non-diegetic Sound
For me, the people in the screen do not create the non-diegetic sound, and it comes from the outside of the screen, which is kind like a sound rendering an atmosphere of horror. My example is a lady comes to home, and then something scary happened because the wired sound is from the outside of the picture. It is at about 13:30 minutes. The reason I choose this example because there is a hand which looks very strange making something, also all those happened in the dark and scary night. Also, the example directly expresses the aesthetic of horror, because dark night with horror sounds gives audiences an illusion of ominous. Dark night is one of the best places filming horror movie, because in a movies bad things always happens at night.
Diegetic sound
The diegetic sound is the sound directly from the scene we can see. My example from the buffy episode is a girl lying on the front desk in the classroom. After a guy kissed her, all students are just disappeared and a sound, which a little girl is singing, came in. When I was watching it I felt like that the girl is dreaming, or the guy reminds the girl something horror. This part is at about 1:00 minutes. The reason I choose this example is because it arose my curiosity about this video, and I think it is a hint foreshadowing later developments in the story. Also, this example attracts audiences, which is the purpose of the aesthetic of horror. The reason I think it is attractive is because it arose my curiosity. Personally, the little girl is an element always used in the horror movie, and especially a little girl standing in an empty area, which exactly like the scene in the video. I would want to know what is going on with this girl when I watch the video.
Tom, I really appreciate your blog post. I too am a novice and critiquing movies and it sounds like this is a new endeavor for you as well. It was interesting and beneficial, I believe, to see your interpretation of these terms as well. I understood the mis-en-scene to be the totality of the film, but I could be completely off base, this is nowhere near my field of expertise. If so I do agree that the bedroom is a great time to highlight the aesthetic of horror. Since we all have a bedroom and this is where we probably spend the most time alone, I think it has the greatest chance of creating the feeling of fear in the viewer. I also noticed a lot of foreshadowing in this episode. I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who viewed it this way.
I really enjoyed reading your post! I think the bedroom scene was very descriptive in terms of the mise-en-scene. Your attention to detail greatly explained the scene itself. The diegetic example you gave, was the same one that I chose for mine. I think the voice of the little girl set a creepy tone for the episode and was a perfect illustration of this type of sound in the film. I found the non-diegetic sound to be more difficult (I am not sure if you felt the same). I am not positive exactly which scene you were describing, but the outside noises seem to fit the description well. I had difficulty finding examples of that type of noise. Overall, I enjoyed your thoughts in your post and found your descriptions very appropriate for the horror genre.
I think that there are many things included in the mise-en-scene, and the list provided was quite helpful in narrowing them down from the entirety of the scene. When I was reading through this I was curious, was there anything special about the bed, or the other items that you mentioned. While you listed the time, the scene did not jump out to me based on your description. From my basic understanding of mise-en-scene, though I could be way wrong, is that mise-en-scene should be the description of what is going on in some detail, so when you are done others can see what it is that you meant without having to go search through. This may be a good way of thinking about this in the future.