Mise-en-scene: Setting/Location

Setting/Location:
This scene begins with a train moving through a dark, foggy valley. This immediately conveys to the audience that there is a dangerous, uncomfortable and unsafe theme to this scene. The train is isolated  therefore showing that the passengers are on their own, they are completely helpless. Pathetic fallacy is used with the rain and fog to give feelings of misery and unease. The scene then cuts to four people sat in a rickety carriage, one asleep with a cloak over most of himself. again there is a feeling of being helpless as they are trapped in a carriage and all that can be seen is the dark dreary outside.