La la land is an emotional worlwin
fabricated by its strong cinematography used throughout the duration of the
film. La la land produces spectators to be active this is a result color palette
being vibrant for many reasons, but primarily because the film’s director Damien
Chazelle elected to shoot using film.
The end scene of la la land creates meaning and emotion with its
cinematography. The start scene is of Mia there is a white plain color pallet
emphasizing that se has come as herself and shows her raw emotion as she gazes
off camera. The pan shot sees the camera approaching Mia slowly and is very essential
for the following shot, it sees the camera dolly’s and zooms out taking away
the verisimilitude of the sece as the spectators see that this is an altered
flash backs ridden with emotions changing the scene concluding value. The grey
white color pallet has been replaced with a vibrant yellow red and orange one
creating emotion as spectators see the accompany of the diegetic music partnered
up with the character Seb showing his music is affecting others and is the
bridge between Seb and Mia. At this point an active viewer would have
established the relationship between Sebs passion and Mia’s love for his
passion.
An over the solder shot reviles the mesmerizing lit up atmosphere heightening
and establishing the connection between the two lovers. At
this stage in the film audience members including myself relate to this part as
it is an outburst of emotion and also diminishes verisimilitude as the scene is
progressing. The non-diagenetic music amplifies the burst of emotion. Also to
comment the blue color palette is
heavily featured within the montage of the two lovers going on a journey this
concludes the film as it portrays the individual characters establishing their
connection with one another as an audience member this has engaged me through
spectatorship as it is easy to relate to the characters and easy to relate to the
situation.
The audience switches from active to passive viewing
as we are able to explore the film in its true form during the ending montage. This
montage gives the audience the ended that they desired and the full clarit of closure in the style of
conventions of the world Mia and Seb live in this means we are fully emerged
into the style and alignment of the films conventions.
