Mise en scene (part one)
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Approaches to Cinema 1: Film Language and Form Week 5: mise en scene (1)
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First year undergraduate introduction to mise en scene (part one)
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Approaches to Cinema 1: Film Language and Form
Week 5: mise en scene (1)
elements of mise en scene
How do these different elements interact with one another?
lighting
directionsource
lighting direction (1)
frontal lighting
side lighting (cross lighting)
lighting direction (2)
top lighting
under lighting
lighting direction (3)
backlighting
lighting source (1): three point lighting
lighting source (2): natural lighting
greater realism
expert cinematographerscan use natural lighting expressively
the ‘magic hour’
lighting schemes
low-key lighting
high-key lighting
performance
acting ‘signs’ can include: body, gesture, posture,movement, make-up, costume, voice (tone, accent, delivery etc)
actors construct characters by using their voices and bodies
performance and verisimilitude
performance and other aspectsof film language
what makes a performance realistic?
how do the use of camera, editing and sound influence an actor’s performance?
composition and framing
arrangement of actorsand objects…
…in relation to one another …in relation to the sides of the frame
foreground and background
symmetry and asymmetry
blocking
Props
as a thematic motif as part of star persona
as MacGuffin
