La La Land Question Thingymabob
Discuss how important cinematography is in establishing strong responses from spectators to a key character in La La Land - must refer to a scene! In the scene "what could have been" We see the shot pan out on Seb and the lighting brightens and we see the background to be the restaurant from Mia and Sebs first encounter. The shot then cuts to a smiling Mia centre screen in the blue dress she originally wore in that scene making it clear that this is a flashback or Mia's imagination changing how they went about things for a happy ending. The fact that she is the only thing visible makes it easier for the audience to identify that this is replicating that scene which makes it easier for the passive audience members which a low budget in dependent film wouldn't. Then we see an over the shoulder shot where we see Mia observing what we have already seen when Seb loses his job but makes us feel more connected to Mia as both Mia and us the spectators are working out that t