Mise-en-scene

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

 Setting: Within this scene, the setting takes place within an unfinished construction land. We know this due to the big patch of sand/dirt everywhere, metal crates, and a big Excavator. With this setting, it's the main job was to try to fit an army into this setting and to really show off our protagonist power. This setting was chosen to play out a role to give our audience a thrill/excitement with the rider crushing everyone with a hellfire excavator but to also send a message to them on how he's just a character who can't stay down.

 Lighting: In this scene shown, we can definitely tell low-key lighting was being used plus the combination of the time being at night leads us to understand his character. Compared to other superheroes throughout the years, characters like superman, captain America, Spiderman, etc., and their movies all show high-key lighting to reflect on their morals and the way we see them as these nice, bright, friendly, and knightly Angelic figures who never kills or simply high key = the good side. But with low-key lighting, it shows how he's the exact opposite and show's his psychology on how he's not a hero he's a  dark punisher. A dark punisher who goes for the "guilty" and will kill due to the lack of belief in redemption this was revealed because of low-key lighting. Side note: Low-key lightning also shows that the genre of the movie is action/fantasy packed

 costume: From being shown in the Movie poster all the way to the whole movie itself we can the main protagonist wearing a whole motorcycle outfit. With this it helps establishes his name 'The Ghost Rider' and within the name 'Rider' one would expect to wear something that matches his name and with that, a motorcycle outfit helps employs that. Furthermore, the color of his costume is black which represents death and with a character who sets his victims on fire with a costume color that signals death, it all combines to show/represent who the protagonist is. Lastly, his motorcycle outfit represents who he once was and still holds on due to him being a motorcyclist before and after him becoming the 'Ghost Rider.'

 staging/prop: With staging, we see the main thing used throughout the movie and this scene besides the excavator is his chains. These chains help tie their character to it so we all know who it is when we see/hear it. With these chains help tie with his fiery demon ideology of no mercy and something like a sword wouldn't be as fit as a chain. Due to a variation of the chain that being whips were used in Europe to punish guilty lawbreakers.

Summary: In summary, the setting for Mise-en-scene helps tell this story genre will be action by providing a big area for the protagonist vs many antagonists to battle it out. Low Key Lighting shows the character psychology on how he's the very opposite of your normal superhero but a dark protagonist and how it helps add to the way he looks at life grimly and how it also reveals how people need to be punished more than saved. With his costume being a motorcycle fit it reveals a piece of who the character was before and now adds to his new identity as well as to emphasize his name the Ghost Rider, and shows that his costume is more to represent who he is as a person than to rather just make him look cool (though that is also a reason). With staging, it reveals his own signature choice of weapon for audience as well as everyone around him can already detect who's coming (ex: if you hear a hammer you think of Thor, shield captain America, bow and arrow hawk eye, and so on and so forth). But with me yeah I like characters like Spiderman, thor, superman, etc, but I lean more toward characters batman, Ghostrider, and Red Hood all because I like darker characters their cooler and way more realistic if I had their type of power I wouldn't be such of a Boy Scout like superman these characters live a dark style and I love it and with Mine-en-scene adding in low-key-lighting, a black motorcycle outfit, construction site to show off their power with staging/prop being a signature chain to kill his foes this all adds more to why I like these types of characters Mise-en-scene just helps brings these things alive and accurately depicts how the scenes lighting and all should be used when handling characters like ghost rider.