I’ve always really enjoyed watching films that are artistically and visually beautiful. The set and costuming that work together in a way that makes you look past the actual narrative or even the acting. Along with the framing of the shot I think its so important that the character within a shot matches the environment that they are within. This of course is only because I want a shot to be aesthetically beautiful an to make it known that I as the director have thought about what is important to the visuals of the shot. Wes Anderson is an obvious example, in his ability to create a clear colour palate and style his films around a certain set of colours. I admire his attention to the artistic visuals of his films and I really would like to investigate this too. It’s interesting to see how the location and costuming work hand in hand. The textures of the elements within the frame seem to highlight and frame the character and the same goes for the costume.

I’ve come to realised how much I can’t stand poor costuming choices. I think costume is as important to the mise-en-scene as any other element and adds so much to the aesthetic of a shot. I find that costume must work with the location that it’s within, whether it be through similar colour pallet or appropriateness to the setting. Costume doesn’t need to be too extreme or wonderfully crazy just as it doesn’t have to be overly grungy and tattered however i believe it has to work within the location and environment it’s in. Again Wes seems to do costuming very well and his location and colour pallet all work hand in hand.

This video essay is really interesting and highlights a lot of the parallels between Wes Anderson and Yasujiro Ozu. I find both of these directors have exciting and beautiful ways of showing narrative. I love the hard angles and tracking that is executed in shooting and framing of each shot. The formulaic way that Anderson presents each shot and the visuals within it is striking, it almost highlights each and every element of the mise-en-scene so that audiences don’t miss a thing. As the essay states, we have a sense of spatial awareness and I seem to link this to the beauty of the location. These particular camera movements give focus to the location and characters moving within the location, and to me there is something really exciting about following a character.  I haven’t seen much of Yasujiro Ozu’s work however after watching this essay I began to watch more of his work. What I found enjoyable about Ozu’s work is the aesthetics of the location in the shot and the structured nature of each scene. What’s actually in the shot is just as important as how it is shot, and i think this is going to be more of a focus for me as i continue to experiment. Maybe this is something I could learn to appropriate and maybe adapt in my own way.