I recently got to show Sarah the Dark Crystal for the first time, and went back afterwards and screenshot-ed some of the frames to highlight composition...
I had never noticed how much the filmmakers used symmetry to allude to power (both in layouts and in radial elements in the production design [circles, triangles, and pentagrams]).
----------------------------Symmetry----------------------------
----------------------------Frame within a frame----------------------------
----------------------------Repetition, variety, unity----------------------------
They used these huge, sprawling, asymmetrical landscapes to communicate when settings were changing...
----------------------------Size (and symmetry, again, in the first one)----------------------------
