Falanga "Last of the Mohicans"

This image from "Last of the Mohicans" describes the mood and tone of the scene very well. The dominant is on Daniel Day-Lewis' character Nathaniel, who is running towards the camera. The next dominant features, the subdominants, are his two comrades running whith him, the digression in size and detail in the farther charcters illustrate the character proximics as they are running with the dominant, being Nathaniel, but further away from the camera. The scene is considered public as we see much of the battle in the background and an open forest as well behind the grass plains. Natural lighting is used, making it quite clear that it is daytime. The scene symbolizes chaos and a battle intensive mood as the three main focused elements on the scene are fleeing and weilding weapons, acting in a hurry running away from the battle in the background. This frame illustrates how Nathaniel is the leader of this ragtag group of fighters by being the dominant and how he is being followed by his soldiers in the straight line or path they create behind him. The characters are in somewhat close proxemity to eachother, decreasing in closeness to the camera torwards the left side of the frame. The dominant's face, Nathaniel, is bright and considerably larger because of his closer proxemic to the camera, showing how this frame was shot this way to have the audience looking at his emotion and sense of urgency and passion. This frame definitely describes the scene well because of the leader within close proxemics and the following soldiers farther away but following his tracks.