Chapter 3 Mise-en-scene
Chapter 4 Mis-en-scene
Mise-en-scene
Literally means “staging or putting on an action or scene”
Refers to the overall look and feel of a movie – the sum of everything we see, hear, and experience.
Two main elements: design and composition.
Design
The process by which the look of the settings, props, lighting, and actors is determined.
Composition
Organization, distribution, balance, and general relationship of the actors and objects/figures within the space of each shot.
Is important because it helps to ensure the aesthetic unity and harmony of the movie as well as to guide our interpretation as to the character’s physical, emotional, and psychological relationships to him/herself to another.
Production designer
Person who works closely with the director as well as DP in visualizing the movie that will appear on the screen.
Elements of design:
Setting, décor, props; Lighting; Costume, makeup, and hairstyle
On location
Exterior locations to shoot a movie
Set
Location in a studio that can simulate the environment the art director wants to create
Décor
Color and textures of the interior decoration, furniture, draperies, curtains
Properties
Objects such as paintings, vases, flowers, etc.
Figures
Any significant things that move on the screen
Kinesis
What moves on the screen
Frame
Border between what the filmmaker wants us to see and everything else.
Can also imply POINT OF VIEW (omniscient, or from a character).
Reframing
When the frame moves and changes its point of view.
Offscreen/Onscreen space
The frame is dynamic, which means that anything beyond its border we can interpret as existing.
Offscreen space is anything outside the frame and onscreen space is the details inside the frame.
Open/Closed Framing
Open frame is designed to depict a world where characters move freely in a recognizable environment
Close frame is designed to imply that other forces have robbed characters of their ability to move and act freely.
Style: Open frame tends to allow the characters move freely in and out of the frame. The cinematography is highly realistic, basically a rendition of the reality.
Close frame tends to control the character in and out of the frame using exaggerated and distorted cinematic techniques.
Blocking
A technique done by sticking tape on the floor to indicate the position of the actors relative to the visual effect it has on the camera.
STUDY PG 122 – 135 for the INDIVIDUAL MIS-EN-SCENE
95% SURE WE ARE GOING TO BE TESTED ON DESCRIBING A MOVIE’s MIS-EN-SCENE OF OUR OWN CHOICE
Questions for review:
What is the meaning of mise-en-scene?
What are two major visual components of mise-en-scene
Name and briefly discuss the major elements of cinematic design?
What is composition? What are the two major elements of composition?
What is the difference between static frame and moving frame?
Why do most shots in a film rely on both onscreen and offscreen spaces?
What are the essential differences between open frame and closed frame?
Mise-en-scene
Literally means “staging or putting on an action or scene”
Refers to the overall look and feel of a movie – the sum of everything we see, hear, and experience.
Two main elements: design and composition.
Design
The process by which the look of the settings, props, lighting, and actors is determined.
Composition
Organization, distribution, balance, and general relationship of the actors and objects/figures within the space of each shot.
Is important because it helps to ensure the aesthetic unity and harmony of the movie as well as to guide our interpretation as to the character’s physical, emotional, and psychological relationships to him/herself to another.
Production designer
Person who works closely with the director as well as DP in visualizing the movie that will appear on the screen.
Elements of design:
Setting, décor, props; Lighting; Costume, makeup, and hairstyle
On location
Exterior locations to shoot a movie
Set
Location in a studio that can simulate the environment the art director wants to create
Décor
Color and textures of the interior decoration, furniture, draperies, curtains
Properties
Objects such as paintings, vases, flowers, etc.
Figures
Any significant things that move on the screen
Kinesis
What moves on the screen
Frame
Border between what the filmmaker wants us to see and everything else.
Can also imply POINT OF VIEW (omniscient, or from a character).
Reframing
When the frame moves and changes its point of view.
Offscreen/Onscreen space
The frame is dynamic, which means that anything beyond its border we can interpret as existing.
Offscreen space is anything outside the frame and onscreen space is the details inside the frame.
Open/Closed Framing
Open frame is designed to depict a world where characters move freely in a recognizable environment
Close frame is designed to imply that other forces have robbed characters of their ability to move and act freely.
Style: Open frame tends to allow the characters move freely in and out of the frame. The cinematography is highly realistic, basically a rendition of the reality.
Close frame tends to control the character in and out of the frame using exaggerated and distorted cinematic techniques.
Blocking
A technique done by sticking tape on the floor to indicate the position of the actors relative to the visual effect it has on the camera.
STUDY PG 122 – 135 for the INDIVIDUAL MIS-EN-SCENE
95% SURE WE ARE GOING TO BE TESTED ON DESCRIBING A MOVIE’s MIS-EN-SCENE OF OUR OWN CHOICE
Questions for review:
What is the meaning of mise-en-scene?
What are two major visual components of mise-en-scene
Name and briefly discuss the major elements of cinematic design?
What is composition? What are the two major elements of composition?
What is the difference between static frame and moving frame?
Why do most shots in a film rely on both onscreen and offscreen spaces?
What are the essential differences between open frame and closed frame?
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