FILM 1F94 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Low Key, Eye Level, Long Shot
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Visual arrangement of various elements within the frame of the film. Staging the overall look and feel of a movie the sum of everything the audience sees and experiences while viewing it . All films have mise-en-sc ne, but certain filmmakers prioritize it, put greater emphasis on it, and control it to greater extents than others: design. Setting, d cor, props (studio/set vs. on location) Framing: what we see on the screen relative arrangement of visual elements. Kinesis: what moves on the screen; figures can move within the frame, frame itself can move. In either case the organization of the mise-en-scene is recalibrated as the movement unfolds. Artistic style origins in painting and theatre, roughly 1910s-1930s. Combination of (relatively) straightforward narrative with pronounced modernist, Try to notice concrete examples of expressionistic examples in the film, and what motivates them. What is the exaggerated and distorted mise-en-scene trying to. An association with chairs is an association with death.
