Le Zhang presents FILM+456 Scene+Analysis
Channel: Queen's University Library
Date: 2022-04-29

An Audio-Visual Prophecy: Arcane - The Prestigious Concert Scene 
Presenter: Le Zhang

The topic of my video essay is to take a close examination on the prestigious concert scene on Arcane: League of Legends. To see how the use of the mise-en-scene and audio-visual language helps to make foreshadowing on characters’ behaviors. The video essay illustrates the changing psychological states of several main characters (Jess, Mel, Hemerdinger and several councilors) based on their lines and action details. Through the analysis of cinematic elements like mise-en-scène, background music, lighting and staging provide in-depth observations and analysis of how the film uses superb audio-visual language to foreshadow the actions and situations of different characters later in the story. I also added tons of arrows and circles to highlight the significant elements in each frame to cooperate with my voiceover and helps focusing audiences’ attentions as well. Prof. Daniel in FILM 456 The Video Essay provided me a lot of advice, especially about the copyright issue about the editing of background music after the video was uploaded to the public platform. Some of the points Prof. Daniel mentioned in the lecture also helped me to better plan the structure and framework of the whole video.