In both La La Land and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend mise en scene plays a factor in the story. In Crazy Ex-Girlfriend when our main character, Rebecca, has her moment of anxiety, the set design uses an ad about being happy to push the narrative towards Josh the one person in the story that makes her happy, that makes her heart flutter and fill with love. It does quite literally by having a sign fall slightly and pointing directly at him. But what I believe is the most common visual motif in both works is the use of spotlights and low key …show more content…
Many times when characters are singing and dancing in these films they often look directly into the camera as if they are singing directly to the audience. Also, the music begins to play and the mise en scene tends to change. This happens often in La La Land when Mia or Sebastian begins to sing a stylistic change occurs as either light begin to dim, pieces of the set moves or even an overall tonal shift. In Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, at times during her songs, she asks questions mostly rhetorical ones but they are directed towards the audience attempting to engage us with