How can creative choices affect our perceptions?

“How can creative choices affect our perceptions?” 

Creative choices come in varies different choices from the editing to the mise-en-scene and the cinematography, with in films the effect of these choices can be interpreted by different audience types for example the mise-en-scene will have to incorporate the creative choice of how the film maker wants the audience to feel. Which is also the same for the music in the background because it wouldn’t make sense if you place chop suey when the scene is supposed to make you feel sad.  

Let's take one of my favorite tv series Teen Wolf in season three episode 6 “motel California” a short summary, they are on the way to an away game of lacrosse and stop at a motel which has suspicious suicides happening and the cast tries to figure it out and in one of the specific scenes Scott who is a werewolf tries to kill himself with a flair and gasoline but stiles his best friend talks him down by standing into the gasoline with Scott and grabs the flair while giving him a speech on how he is his brother and not just his best friend, with the background music being just an instrumental piece called “Revelation” which the creative choice of using that song in that scene made it so much more powerful of feeling then it would have with any other song.  

The creative choices within mise-en-scene can mean so much to the audience if a film or t show had the right scenery for example if it was an apocalyptic world you would expect to see broken building, everywhere is dispersed, smoke in the distance from burning buildings, this is type of mise-en-scene is what you would see in the walking dead or fear the walking dead or even the 100 which are thee tv shows that a based in an apocalyptic world. 

The cinematography can also be many creative choices by the way the film maker choose how he wants us to see a certain scene with in the movie with a certain shot type for example the close-up can give us how the character is feeling by the way we see their facial expressions by being so close to the face giving an example in the hunger games catching fire at the end it has a close-up on Katniss Everdeen and we see her figuring something out and her facial expression is clear for the audience to know that she has just figured out what she has to do, if the audience reads into it more. 

The representation is a creative choice as well because within choosing who you are aiming you finished film at is big for example Mamma Mia you would expect the film maker to aim it at women in their late 30 to late 40s and those who enjoy music by Abba or those who are into musicals. Which is a creative choice because the film maker must think on who would watch the film and aim it at those instead of aiming it at someone who doesn’t like musicals or even Abba’s music. 

In the film how to train our dragon in the scene where hiccup is freeing the night fury (toothless), the audience is shown hiccup finding toothless captured in his net and he is shown not to believe that he actually caught a night fury, which then the film maker shows us when he is closer that he is trying to convince himself that he has got to kill the night fury so he can convince his dad that he is also a Viking but then decides not to do so, which is empowered by the music in the back ground because it gets louder by the point he decides to not kill toothless to then it goes quite to which hiccup is deciding whether to release him which he does which the music in the background get tense to where we see toothless jump up and on to hiccup, which then they do an extreme close up on toothless face to show the pain from his eyes with the background music being loud which is Scottish bagpipes and we see that the film maker has chosen to keep it for 30 seconds so we can see how toothless is feeling just by a look he gives to hiccup, and then It goes to a medium long shot to where we see toothless scream at hiccup in frustration of what he's done. We interpreter the frustration from the way he looks and the sound effect of him breathing heavily at hiccup. 

Which the creative choices out of that scene is to make you feel how toothless and hiccup are feeling by the way the music is loud in certain places and quite in others to show how they feel in the certain parts like when hiccup is deciding whether or not to kill toothless and when toothless is lose and letting the rage out on hiccup for what he did and seeing the facial expression we see from the extreme close up on toothless, which the creative choices affect our perceptions by showing us how hurt they both are by just this interaction.