What is the importance of mies-en-scene and/or sound in creating meaning and generating response in the films you have studied? City of God

Mise-en-scene is very important in City of God especially in the scene were we first see li'l Dice on the bricks with the Tender Trio and when li'l Dice shoots Goose.

In the scene with li'l Dice on the bricks with the Tender Trio. Li'l Dice in the scene is shown above the Tender Trio and they are all sitting on the a stack of bricks, which is a foundations for the house. The mise-en-scene in the scene canoes that the tender trio are the foundations of the City of God and the foundations of the crime in the favelas. The positioning of li'l dice shows that he has more power than them due to him being higher on the brick and separate from the tender trio. This shows that he will be the successor of the tender trio and will be the major part of the city and will be in control of the place. There is also bars surrounding them showing that they are trapped with in the city and that they are not getting out of the city, or out of the crime life now that they have started the crime gang in the City of God. There is a slight yellow filter to the screen gives a warm feeling to the scene and numbs down the violence and gives the view of optimism in the 60's in the favelas which gradually gets darker during the the film. The tinge also refers to the minimal violence in Rio in the time and the amount of peacefulness in the favelas at the time.

The other scene then shows li'l Dice siting on the same bricks but he is now on the bottom and the tender trio have gone. The rise-en-scene in the scene is very similar to before where we had the poles of the foundation looking like a cage. This time though the scene is shot from a slight lower angle making it look a lot wider and more open and looking like someone can leave. This time li'l Dice is the one in control with his friend Benny who is Shaggy's brother from the tender trio. The yellow filter is still on there showing the hope for goose to escape from the cops. This time li'l Dice has a gun which he didn't last time and he is playing around with it as if it is a toy, this shows that people in the favelas are used to violence and play around with it. There is also verisimilitude in the scene when we see the hand held camera section when we see a close up of gooses feet which gives a sense of realism/verisimilitude. Even though in the scene there is verisimilitude it is very fictionalised due to the way that it is shot. The way that it is shot is on a steady camera and on a wide angled lense which is not normally seen in an urban stories film and social realism films, which this film is.