Beginners guide to mise en scene
- 1. Beginners Guide to Mise en Scene Lily Saunders
- 2. What is Mise en Scene ? • This comes from the French term, what is inside the scene or frame. • It is the visual information in front of the camera, telling the audience information about the scene. It is made up of five different things...
- 4. Props and Settings • The setting of a scene plays an important part in film making. • A set could be built from scratch or time is spent searching for an already existing setting. • Settings can build up certain expectations before taking a surprising turn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J38H3xnvgiQ Props give the setting authenticity, these are particularly important in settings of a different era. • The weather also falls under this category, it can influence the mood and atmosphere of a scene for the audience.
- 5. Costumes • Costumes, hair and make up are important to show us the personality, status and job of the character. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYR9aKt Cuek • Tells us the era, society and culture that the show or film is based around. • Certain costumes are significant of certain types of people. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q17DwQ4
- 6. Facial Expression and Body Language • This can tell us how someone is feeling. • It can play together with the music in the background to project someone in a way that might not be obvious to the eye – for example if someone is smiling but there is dark and sinister music, they turn from being someone happy, to perhaps being someone scary. • This can also indicate the feelings that one character has to another, or reflect the
- 7. Lighting and Colour • Colour can add meaning to a scene as it gives it a particular feel, look or mood. • It can create a dramatic effect. • Lighting can highlight objects or characters that might be important within the frame. • The lighting can be manipulated to make characters look mysterious by shading sections of the face or the body. • The lighting can show us a character’s mental state and hidden emotions. • There are two main types of lighting…
- 8. Low Key Lighting • This is created by only using key and back lights. It creates sharp contrasts between the dark and light areas. It produces distinct shadows or silhouettes. • This is appropriate for filming scenes that are of a horror or ghost genre…
- 9. Low Key Lighting Examples
- 10. Low Key Lighting in Batman
- 11. High Key Lighting • High key lighting uses more filler lights and the lighting is natural and realistic to our eyes as it produces sets that are brightly lit or a sunny day.
- 12. High Key Lighting Examples
- 13. High Key Lighting in Iron Man
- 14. Guess What Lighting is Being Used… ?