Mis-en-Scene

Directors hold a large part of creativity in the making of a film. Some have larger roles than others depending on the film and studio they are working on. Generally, directors guide actors and crew members to visualize their idea of the script.

Gore directed Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003). His prior experience in directing before pirates were the feature films: The Ring (2002), The Mexican (2001), and MouseHunt (1997). He is also credited with directing several music videos including Monster Magnet's Negasonic Teenage Warhead (1995), along with Bad Religion's "Atomic Garden" (1992) and American Jesus (1993) The combination of his previous works I believe brought the movie together as a whole especially the comedic sequences.

A Verbinski Trait. From viewing his previous work I’ve noticed that he is fond of rotational shots and as seen in the first shot of our sequence and the opening of the music video Negasonic Teenage Warhead. By keeping the subject or character still and having the camera move around them gives off good figure ground relationships.