The ball scene starts as Romeo Takes an Ecstasy tablet. When Romeo enters the actual ball he goes in with his cousins and he flashes his fake ticket at the bouncer in a very stoned way and the bouncer looks down at him as if to say " oh good another stoned person".

The ball is full of sexual promiscuity with many things going on which aren't considered sexually normal such as Gloria Capulet kissing Tybalt (her nephew) in a sexual way, Fulgencio Capulet with a young girl rather than his wife and Fulgencio also shows off his pants to everyone. Mercutio dances dressed in a tiny silver top and skirt and is in drag and he dances sexually on a huge, cheap looking staircase in front of a massive painting of the virgin Mary.

The Costumes people are wearing reflect the tackiness of the fancy dress ball with everyone wearing very glitzy, tacky costumes. Gloria Capulet is dressed as Cleopatra, Fulgencio is dressed as a roman god, The Capulet boys are dressed as skeletons except Tybalt who is wearing devil horns. Everyone there is dressed in this equally tacky way except for Romeo and Juliet. Juliet is dressed as an

angel wearing a white dress and feathered wings on her back, this is to make her look innocent and pure and Romeo who is dressed as a knight in chainmail this is to make him look strong and dominant whereas everyone else's costumes are just meaningless.

Romeo pulls his head out of the basin and throws his mask into the basin as if to say "I don't want to be here anymore". Romeo then notices a fish tank in the middle of the room he walks over to it whilst the camera pans round him showing a man dressed as a old world jester using a urinal. On the other side of the fish tank is Juliet in the Female bathroom. Juliet sees Romeo on the other side of the fish tank and she jumps back in shock and they look at each other as if it is love at first site, they then kiss the fish tank and do other thing to let each other know how they feel about each other. The gliding movements of the fish in the fish tank mirror these movements. This Romantic scene is then abruptly ended by the harsh voice of Juliet's nurse saying "Juliet your mother asks for you" and that is the end of the ballroom scene.

The camera angles are mostly medium long shots showing the ball with all the people there crammed into one shot to make it look busy and popular. There is a very long shot when Mercutio is dancing at the top of the stairs, this is a very long shot to show the huge painting of the Virgin Mary as well as to show his dancers and the crowd watching him dance.

The lighting is heavy in the ballroom with strobe lights, spotlights and fairy lights. The strobe lights make the ball look party like and modern. The spotlights pick up th

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