The Great Gatsby is a film released in 2013, directed by Baz Luhrmann who won: Best Film, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for The Great Gatsby (AACTA Awards 2013), with cinematography by Simon Duggan (I, Robot and Underworld: Evolution, being two of his previous important works). The main roles include Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway, the shy spectator of the events of the film and Leonardo DiCaprio, who plays the role of Jay Gatsby, a rich and luxurious millionaire who has been in love with the same woman for even five years. of no contact; this is Daisy Buchanan, played by Carey Mulligan, an upper-middle-class woman with beautiful looks and charming charisma. The scene that will be analyzed falls in the middle of the film and portrays Jay and Daisy's first meeting after five years without contact. The components of the film will be examined: staging, cinematography, soundtrack and editing to help understand the meaning of the scene and the particular components within it as well as the emotional effect they have. Music and Sound The Great Gatsby is known for its soundtrack, "This is not so much the Jazz Age, or even the Pizzazz Age, as the Razzle-Dazzle Baz Age" (Corliss, Richard (09 May 2013) Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby: From Jazz Age to Baz Age TIME http://entertainment.time.com/2013/05/09/luhrmanns-the-great-gatsby-from-jazz-age-to-baz-age/), referring to Baz Luhrmann's excellent example of jazz transformation ((which was the popular musical style when the novel was released), in modern hip-hop to give the party scenes a cheerful and recognizable energy for the youth of modern times. To achieve this Baz Luhrmann created a collaboration with hip-hop artist and producer JAY-Z to create an appropriate sound...... middle of paper ...... eyes entered This shows that Gatsby has regained his composure and these are actions that we associate with his character. The extradiegetic sound resumes here with greater intensity than in the previous part of the scene to suggest that this is the real moment before the first meeting between Daisy and Gatsby. When in the room Gatsby is standing between two flower ornaments and Daisy is also on the other side of the room. Center shots of Daisy and Gatsby are shown, however Daisy is much closer to the camera than Gatsby in her shots. This is to show that Daisy is the center of this scene and that all of Gatsby's attention falls on her. This scene is interrupted by the sound of a kettle and then a fade transition occurs to show the cottage from the outside while a dreamlike, non-diegetic sound is played. This indicates that a change in time has occurred, ending the scene