Chapter 1 Mise-en-scene, shot, camera distance (5-12) PDF

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What is mise-en-scene  Mise-en-scene: totality of expressive content within the image o Expressive totality of what you see in a single image  Setting, props, lighting, costumes, makeup, and figure behavior (actors, gestures, their facial expressions)  Camera’s actions and angles and cinematography (photography for motion pictures o Director starts from scratch and stages a scene for the camera, and every element of the resulting image has expressive meaning o First step in understanding how films produce and reflect meaning o French term means that which has been put on screen o Can be realistic or not o Filmmakers typically guide gaze to specific areas in an image by manipulating compositions, colors, areas of focus, etc. o Each shot should relate to the first one of that scene The Shot  Shot—basic element of filmmaking; piece of film run through the camera, exposed, and developed; an uninterrupted run of the camera; an uninterrupted image of the film o Mise-en-scene describes the content of a single shot and a sequence of shots o Scene usually consists of several shots o Take: single recording of a shot Camera distance: why it matters  Allows directors to provide expressive shading  Generally, the closer the camera to the subject, the more emotional weight the subject gains  Camera can be far away, but the lens is what gets the close up o Lens is a telephoto lens o Close-up: shot that isolates an object in the image, making it appear relatively large  EX: face o Extreme close-up—any element isolated at very close range in the image  EX: eye, mouth  Medium shot: taken from a medium distance o EX: from waist up (or chest up)  Three-quarter shot: from knees up  Full shot: entire human body  Long shot: appears to be taken from a long distance o Extreme long shot—shows the object or person at a vast distance surrounded by a great amount of the surrounding space  Close-ups/shots are only that in relation to something else; what may be a close up to one director is a medium shot to others...