Mise-en-scene

The setting in this clip emphasises the scenario of love, the beach setting is often used for romance within couples. Dear John is a film revolved around the word love so, using mise-en-scene the director chose this setting to make the scene romantic.

Mise-en-scene used in this clip is the props and costumes, the prop used in this horror clip is the knife, the knife emphasises the whole idea of danger, a knife is often used in horrors to make the audience nervous as knifes are often revolved around murder and danger.

The Notebook is a prime example of performance, at the end of Notebook she realises who he is and
they both die together, this is a great performance as it very emotional and it captures the audience in
with the great performance by the actor and actress.