FIST 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Diegesis
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Narrative: how do we tell stories, pertains to al type of forms, a chain of events linked by cause and effect and occurring in time and spade, narrative specially in film, through story and plot. Causality: the cause, what happens to ensure other things will happen, who/what causes it, characters, withheld plot info. Mise-en-scene: setting the scene, guide the eye, all the elements that are placed in front of the camera to be photographed, nothing to do with camera angle or editing. Images that are planned and staged for the camera: offers the filmmaker choice and control, components of mise-en-scene, setting, costume and makeup, lighting, staging (actors and performance, offers storyinfermation. **knowledge that your eye is being guided to look in a particular way. Everything is ready for another person but there is none. A lot of lines pointing towards picture. Contrast between colours/ black and white: clip.
