Jane Eyre Notes - Construction of class and status.

Mise-en-scene

• The colour red is used connoting; passion, exotic, fairytale or dream like world, intertexual reference to red riding hood.
• Pink glow/filter on Jane; daydream, memory, unrealistic.
• Creative, vivid imagination, looking at books - showing Jane is secluded.
• Red room
• Inferior status - "Jane is the youngest, so they hold an attitude of we dont care about her"
• John Need (Janes cousin) - bully, see his feet first, trying to fins Jane hidden behind a curtain; showing she is not intergrated into the family as he is.
• Status; family portrait, the act of having an artist to paint a family portrait in your home and the costumes connote wealth, jane is not included " shes not part of our family", says one of her cousins - her status is lower than her aunts and cousins.
• Janes mum and dad died, left in care of her auntie and uncle, her uncle died and was therefore left in the care of her auntie who dispises her, she treats Jane as an outsider, her uncle haunts the red room.
• Non ambient- inside scene, candle is used to light a dark outside scene.
• Epidemic ofm typhoid hit the school in reality and is documented in the programme - themes are based on reality within the programme
• Helen- Janes only close friend dies of typoid; preliferites art preiod shown as the background, represents helen as spiritual, angel - is always on Janes mind
• Changes at the house; lighting, ambient, outside
• Non ambient lighting ; chiarascuro
• Music; birds connotes house may be haunted
• Horse; belongs to rochestor refelcts his personality in the way the horse is behaving, violent, passionate, jane is scared of the horse and rochestor; never had a lot to do with men
• Has control of the realtionship; he needs her pychsical support as he has injured himself by falling off his horse.
• Mist; curious, dream like, fantasy, spooky, illusionary, eery
• She had to change her clothes; not good enough for rochestor; status - higher class
• Moral high ground; jane eyre; standing up on stairs - has to walk down the stairs to be at his level although he is has a higher social status thna jane, she has a higher moral status than rochestor.

Editing

• Cuts from Jane to Mr Brokelhurst
• Blue filter - sadness, depression, Brokelhurst ; cold character - represent school as a whole

Sound

• Diegetic and non-diegetic; more realistic and authenticity
• Soundtrack; Fantasy
• Sounds of the jungle; connecting to the book Jane is reading

Camera Shots

• Extreme close up of Jane; connotes vulnerabilty, brings the audience closer to her, feeling sorry for her - high angle shows her inferiority.
• Brokelhurst; school teacher, high status; low angle shots, high angle shot of the children connoting their inferiority and lack of importance
• Panning shot of the graveyard
• Eclipse; cutting to the future Jane is an adult
• Zoom out; gives the audience more information, reveals more characters and objects.
• Establishing shots; desert and young girl; high angle, importance of the girl medium/long shot, wide anlge shot of the girl. Jane has her back to the audinece; hidden identity, turing away from something in a `protest`.
• Pans upto thes sky, gril looks up; dreamworld, daydreaming, fantasising
• Wide angle pan of empty desert state; lonliness, passion and exotic
• Close up of Jane; importance
• Cross disolve; in and out of her dream
• Zoom in and out; breaks distinction between dream and reality.
• Close up fo fight between John and Jane - violence
• Red room- high angle, long shot, connotes her inferioty, vulnerabilty, sslightly tilted/canted anlge, confusion, disorentation.
• Handheld camera; shaky - scared
• Shot reverse shot; high angle of Jane, low angle of aunt, re-enforeces status.
• Rule of thrids- importance of the man and the paintings, status draws attention to himself.
• Eclipse - changing of time - day and night.