FIST 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Shallow Focus, Contrast Ratio, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
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Review the way mise-en scene is composed speaks to the audience. Narrative informs style; style informs narrative- always working together to make a coherence. All the different aspects work together for us to understand what is going on. Shots need to guide our eyes & draw our attention so to make sure we are looking where we are supposed to be looking to get the right information to know where the story is going. We simultaneously read films narratively & stylistically helps to create the total feeling in watching a film. Starts to develop the skeleton of making film, the base. How a film is shot ensures that mise-en-scene is never "just itself" The way things are shot will help us to understand how things are happening, The way things are shot help us the interpret and and make sense of thing, figuring out what is important. Not a matter of just what we are looking at-mise-en-scene.
