FILM 1F94 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hairstyle, Robert Wiene
13 Oct 2018
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Visual arrangement of various elements within the frame of the film. Staging: the overall look and look of a movie the sum of everything the audience sees and experiences while viewing it . All films have mise-en-scene, but certain filmmakers prioritize it, put greater emphasis on it, and control it to greater extents than others. Concerned with the stuff we immediately see (costume design/set/lighting: composition. Refers more to the arrangement of the elements of design: design. Framing: what we see on the screen - relative arrangement of visual elements. In either case - the organization of mise-en-scene is recalibrated as the movement unfolds. Artistic style = origins in painting and theatre, roughly 1910s-1930s. A distortion of surface level reality , to reveal of express an inner essence . Combination of (relatively) straightforward narrative with pronounced modernist, expressionist visuals. Try to notice concrete examples of expressionism examples in the film and what motivates them.
